Want to switch from SpyCatcher to Avira but warning

[chisness]

Avira has gotten good recs here so I want to get rid of my current software and just use that for spyware/virus detection. However, SpyCatcher warns me that the files it has quarantined will no longer be quarantined if I remove it.

Will this be OK? Should I take some sort of precaution like doing this in safe mode then running an Avira scan right after?

 

[Medea]

Isn't SpyCatcher an antispyware app? If it is, and not an antivirus app, then you can keep it and add Avira. You shouldn't have more than one AV unless you turn off the real-time protection on one of them, i.e., keep one AV with real-time protection activated and the second AV as an on-demand app. However, you can have more than one antispyware app with no problems.

 

[chisness]

Hey,

That's true but I would prefer to just use Avira to consolidate and get rid of everything else, so I'm wondering if it will be bad when I uninstall SpyCatcher and everything it quarantined is unquarantined until (hopefully) Avira catches them again?

 

[lxskllr]

There should be an option in in SpyCatcher to delete files in quarantine. Do that first, and you shouldn't have any problems.

 

[potato28]

Originally posted by: lxskllr
There should be an option in in SpyCatcher to delete files in quarantine. Do that first, and you shouldn't have any problems.

Or find the quarantine folder and delete it directly, don't send it to the recyc bin.