Returnil antivirus

Hi, Can anyone tell me if the AV component of returnil conflicts with any antivirus program that you already have installed on your PC or does it only operate in the 'virtual environment'?.

Do you have to turn off your resident antivirus program you already have installed to use returnil.

Thanks

 

I've not seen any conflicts, but my own experience is limited.

The primary mode for a "conflict" that I've noticed is an AV with some level of program/application control interrupting the installation procedure, yielding a failed to incomplete install or uninstall. My own recommendation is to pause the real time protection of an installed AV during an RVS install or uninstall.

The embedded RVS AV is either active or inactive all the time. This is a user defined setting.

I've not seen issues with both active, but it's a bit overkill. I'd tend to go with one or the other.

Blue

 

Thanks for that Blue. I was always of the opinion that you should not run two AV programs as they may conflict.

I take it that the AV program in returnil actually operates in the 'whole' system and not just in the virtual system?.

I take it the best suggestion is turn off the returnil AV and continue to use the one I have already installed.

Thanks again

 

I can't see any good reason to run 2 AV's on the same computer. If you think your resident AV needs help, get a different AV. Either that or uninstall it and run Returnil 2005 with the AV activated.

 

My experience has been that Virus Guard causes Prevx 3.0 scans to slow down dramatically when Virus Guard is enabled.

I would like to see a couple of options added to RVS 2010 regarding the use of Virus Guard: -

1. An option not to install Virus Guard and free up the additional memory that it must be consuming.
2. An option to link Virus Guard to System Safe, so that Virus Guard is only turned on when in Virtual System mode.

 

Hi pegr,
If you deactivate PrevX, do you still have the slowdown issues?

Mike

 

Hi Mike,

Yes. It makes no difference whether Prevx real-time protection is enabled or disabled. Prevx scans almost grind to a halt whenever VirusGuard is active.

 

Ok, will ask the team to check on this.

Thanks
Mike

 

When VG active -> refreshing of the folders in my docs takes significantly more time than ususal. I disabled it and... back to normal...