Is it safe to have two different antivirus programs; one for your home computer and one for your flash drive?

So my question's just that. I've learned that it's bad to have more than one antivirus program running on a single computer, but I was wondering, is it okay to one antivirus for my actual at-home computer, and a separate antivirus for the flash drive/portable device? Please and thank you.





I currently have avast! for my home computer and I'm thinking of getting ClamWin for the flash drive.Is it safe to have two different antivirus programs; one for your home computer and one for your flash drive?
You need to get one antivirus program, one firewall and some spyware/adware/malware removers if you don't have it.


I use Norton Internet Security (antivirus, spyware, firewall, add blocker, mail spamfilter, pop up blocker etc) Ad Aware, Spybot and more on my desktop running XP Home SP2 with Firefox and Yahoo Toolbar with pop up blocker.


On my laptop i have Ubuntu 7.04. No security needed in Linux, but i use antivirus and firewall. Firefox is standard.


I have no virus, spyware, adware, pop ups etc on my computers.


Mozilla Firefox and Opera are safer browsers to use then Internet Explorer.


http://en-us.www.mozilla.com/en-US/produ鈥?/a>


http://www.opera.com/





Here are some free programs.


BitDefender Anti-Virus Free.


http://www.bitdefender.com/PRODUCT-14-en鈥?/a>


Avast Anti-Virus Free.


http://www.avast.com/eng/avast_4_home.ht鈥?/a>


AVG Anti-Virus Free.


http://free.grisoft.com/doc/2/lng/us/tpl鈥?/a>


Avast Virus Cleaner - free virus removal tool.


http://www.avast.com/eng/avast-virus-cle鈥?/a>Is it safe to have two different antivirus programs; one for your home computer and one for your flash drive?
An antivirus can't be ';installed'; per say on a USB drive. WinClam AV is a terrible anti-virus by the way, and it is used to scan the COMPUTER from the USB drive, not defend the USB drive. So don't install it. It is just a program you can use to defend your computer without actually installing the program on you computer.
You would be much better off using the same anti-virus program on both computers.