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05-Jul-2008, 03:03 PM #1
Anybody notice anything with ThreatFire?
Yesterday, on my Vista Home Premium box, my system tray items wouldn't load properly and clicking on the Start menu produces the busy circle. I started disabling startup items one by one in msconfig and it turns out after I disable Threatfire, everything proceeds to load normally and I was able to access the start menu again. Did ThreatFire do a self-update? Now I have both AVG 8 and ThreatFire, but they were behaving normally before without stepping on each other.
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05-Jul-2008, 03:11 PM #2
Or is it AVG 8 self-updating and stepping on the toes of ThreatFire?
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07-Jul-2008, 09:09 AM #3
Is thread fire an anti virus or an anti spyware?
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ThreatFire is a purely heuristics based anti-virus, I think.
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Trying to run two antivirus or two firewalls will cause conflict. Should run only 1 of each. Multiple antispyware programs are okay.
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07-Jul-2008, 08:35 PM #6
AFAIK It is recommended to run Threatfire in tandem with an existing Antivirus program rather than as a standalone. Seems a bit overkill to me, I dumped it because as I want as little running in the background as possible.
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09-Jul-2008, 10:40 AM #7
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Originally Posted by MikeSwim07 View Post
Is thread fire an anti virus or an anti spyware?
ThreatFire is a HIPS (heuristics intrusion protection service) like TeaTimer so its not exactly an antivirus but the problem may be it conflicting with AVG
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