multiple antivirus without conflict

I have just thought about a way to have multiple antivirus for blocking bad web content without much slowdown and no compatibility issues.

You can have one antivirus installed on your computer which could be one or more engines.
you can use a dns from an antivirus company such as comodo dns,norton etc

You could then use sophos utm home edition which uses avira and sophos.

no antivirus is 100% thats why a layed approach helps. you could go av free with just sophos utm but its best to keep an installed av for on demand scanning and blocking content from usb sticks,discs etc.

 

Don't you need a seperate computer to run Sophos UTM?

 

yes you do.

 

I have heard many things from Sophos before but never such UTM thing. Thanks Lodore.

At first, I thought they were including a real-time av scanner with the firewall, until I read:

..so I assume it's some sort of http scanning add-on using the Avira engine. Then I read:

...I must admit I've got confused at this point. I'll have to take an insight on this.

 

Don't most UTM's require a seperate machine? I know Juniper's JuneOS and Astaro's (sophos) do.

I'm interested if you can run the Sophos UTM in a virtual machine? It would save you having to install it on another PC.

 

Sophos and Astaro combined forces a while back, therefore the name Sophos UTM (witch replaces your router/gateway/firewall), but you need to install the software on a standalone PC and set it up.
You can choose to have both Avira and Sophos scanning your internet traffic with is awesome actually.

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I will try to explain. the sophos utm runs on a seperate computer between your modem and your computers. it has avira and sophos antivirus to filter out bad web content before it reaches your computers. it can also be used as parental control,blocking certain file types and certain applications as well as vpn etc.

the home license also allows you to install sophos endpoint antivirus on to up to 10 machines for free. you download the installer for endpoint from the utm web interface.

 

Thanks Lodore and Esse, it's much clearer now

Awesome!

 

nvm, forgot the rules..

 

Take G-data for example,this uses two engines and is rolled into one program.
Pity this cannot be achieved with all the AV,s out there..various combinations etc.
G-data is the only AV i know of which does this.
Regards.beethoven.

 

Doesn't EAM use two engines?

HitMan Pro uses five Even though it's an on demand second scanner.

 

Doesn't Coranti (Do I have the name right?) have 4 engines?

 

F-Secure once had three engines, now I don't konw. EAM has two engines.

 

Why protect a computer you can't get full use out of. You should always factor in resource usage. I say by all means use as much security you can but stop just before it makes a noticeable difference to your computer and that's your limit.

 

cant get full use out of...explanation please.?

 

Antivirus software will cut Frames Per Second (FPS) In video games if you are a gamer. It could slow down applications and make them crash like Photoshop (PS) if your an artist. If you get many pop-up's you could cause yourself to have a lot of downtime managing them for no reason which makes your computer using experience suffer. These and more are what i'm talking about.

 

Is there a list somewhere of which AV's or security suites impact game performance the least? I'm always looking to boost my FPS.

 

maybe this can help -http://www.antivirusware.com/testing/performance/-

and this https://www.wilderssecurity.com/showpost.php?p=2143310&postcount=60