spyware

[Lona]

Ah, they're a pain when they do that.  Sometimes you can get away with installing other things afterwards, but not having used AVG, I can't say for certain.

I've had loads of antispyware programmes on at once in the past.  Could be a Vista thing.

[Rik]

Always possible, I guess.

[Noreen]

I've got SUPERAntispyware and SpywareBlaster both with Vista but perhaps you could say that they are slightly different types of programs.

[Simon]

I don't think it's a Vista thing, Lona.  F-Secure, which I currently use, insists on the removal of other security programs during installation, but I have installed others, after the FS installation.  If you remove SAS, then install AVG, you should be able to reinstall SAS, if you want to, but as I said, I haven't used AVG myself, so can't be certain how it would react.  It could be that AVG uses bits of SAS (or vice versa), and if both are running simultaneously, they may conflict, but that's just a wild guess.

[madasahatter]

I have had problems in the past when trying to install certain programs with AVG still running. It's now normal practice for me to disable it when installing things that I think it may possibly get in the way of.