Czuch:i can't find any reason _not_ to do that... ;-)

diogenysos: I think I confused myself with my use of negatives etc... so are you telling me its ok to use more than one ant virus program, and the same with spyware adware as well?

I have been told that two anti virus will take twice as long to start computer etc plus some other problems that i cant remember exactly?

Czuch: I've been told the same. Our ISP company provides free software, but the old system which was in use when we joined was no longer good or stable.... ie it was one program that did anti virus and one that did firewall, etc... and they caused conflicts.. which explained why the anti-virus kept having to close or said it was logged into another account!!

Their new software is just one program and does everything. It's fast and stable.

Czuch:there are a couple of well-known problems running two anti-virus-progs at the same time.
But personally, I dont know any problems concerning spybot and adaware.

There is one nice effect when running both programs:
While scanning the running processes, one program identifies the other as possible malware...

But this can be just ignored... .

diogenysos: ok thanks!