ackagee

Many thanks, exile 360, for your advice. I carried out your suggested actions viz: 'Open Malwarebytes and under Settings>Application find the "Windows Action Center" setting and select the option "Never register Malwarebytes in the Windows Action Center" then restart your PC to see if AVG returns to normal with Malwarebytes' protection active'. On restarting my computer, I found both AVG and Malwarebytes are happily co-existing together again: AVG reports: 'you are fully protected' with the usual 5 green ticks. Malwarebytes reports: 'awesome - you're protected' with 7 green ticks on their dashboard. So, all good now. Thanks again for helping me sort this one out. ackagee

Long time customer of AVG - 15 years or so. Also long time user of unpaid version of Malwarebytes - 10 years plus. No conflict issues between to two programmes until I recently upgraded to the paid version of Malwarebytes. After returning home from being away for a few days, I checked AVG was up to date and found this message on the AVG dashboard: "AVG is now in passive mode - another antivirus programme is running on your PC - uninstall Malwarebytes". What has changed ? AVG used to be perfectly happy co-existing with Malwarebytes. Do I cancel my paid subscription to Malwarebytes and revert to the unpaid - AVG friendly - version ? Or do I keep going with Malwarebytes and cancel my paid sub to AVG ? Suggestions please !