antivirus wars?

[1vf9z8AR]

I have observed a very funny fact about norton and mcafee antivirus programs.
If you install them both they detect each other as harmful programs.

[helios]

Antimalware, by its very nature, needs to do things that are similar to the things real malware does.

[Computergeek01]

This is probably intentional since having two AV systems installed at the same time causes continuous locks on system resources. As a historical example, both of these products have a scan on access feature that used to be triggered by the other products scan on access causing an effective DoS.