Noob here so bare with me, i have recently added AVG (as suggested by gabethebabe) to my poker pc along with the mcafee i already had. AVG just picked up this hidden driver so i did abit of searching and it seems its a mcafee driver: http://forums.avg.com/us-en/avg-foru...show&id=211563.

So i found out by reading that running 2 anti virus softwares is a bad idea: http://forums.avg.com/ww-en/avg-foru...ct=show&id=441

I was running both because i was under the impression that AVG doesnt have a firewall so thought i could run mcafee for the firewall purpose.

Whats the best option??

Thanks

The answer is no.
You do not run two AV programs at the same time, ever.

You have to pick one.

Albeit, if you're not running any form of live or realtime protection, you can run them after each other if you're willing to deal with a lot of false positives.
The better solution for that is doing the online scans of the major companies.

Decide for one platform, completely uninstall the other.

Ok i would decide completely with AVG as ive been told mcafee is pants, but what about the firewall?

Use comodo firewall
download comodo internet security and only install the firewall

Rid McAfee from your system
Live happily ever after.

Also you can do pretty well without a third party firewall. The Windows firewall gives basic protection which should be enough for most users that do not get themselves into bad spots by visiting shady websites on a frequent basis.

thanks im going to use that comodo firewall aswel

when installing it gives me options:

1. i want to enable added security while in the internet by changing my DNS settings to comodo secureDNS servers........ whats that?

Do i want that or not?

ok duno wtf has happened now, ive installed comodo firewall and unistalled mcafee and now comodo has bringing up pop ups asking if software is safe ive clicked accept bla bla and its frozen the pc completely twice cant even ctrl alt delete cant move the mouse or anything so had to reboot, wtf has happened????

edit: its done it a 3rd time as soon as comodo firewall kicks in freezes whole computer

ive unistalled comodo firewall and its fine again...

now what?

well, try online armor or outpost firewall if Comodo sucks on your system

Does Windows Defender in Win8 count as an AV? People seem to like it and I'm tempted to just roll with it if I don't need Avira or something. From MS's page on W8:

AFAIK Windows Defender is a supplement to your AV - an antispyware.

The use of these kinds of terms is kinda ambiguous though (anti virus, anti spyware, anti malware etc).

Microsoft Security Essentials is a full blown AV.