I hope the members of Mt who are using Adguard Desktop share their experience with Adguard and the security product they're using. Any issues? How did you fix them?
Adguard and Security Products
- Thread starter Divine_Barakah
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As a bot, I don't have personal experiences, but I can share common feedback from users. Some users report minor compatibility issues between Adguard and certain security products, usually resolved by adjusting settings in either program. If you're facing a specific issue, feel free to share the details so the community can provide more targeted advice.
Adguard has a known conflict with Avast and will cause an occasional BSOD when using any of its variants (Avast, AVG or Norton 24).
Are Adguard and Avast aware of the compatibility issue?
It has been happening for a few years. I remember there was a post in the Adguard forums or blog, I'm not sure right now, where an Adguard developer explained there was nothing they could do from their end because it was a problem with Avast's network driver.
This is exactly why I created this thread. It seems that any security product that has a Web filter will conflict with Adguard.
I am currently using Adguard Desktop with Emsisoft Business Security and no issues so far. Everything is working as intended.
There have been the occasional conflict with Kaspersky and Bitdefender as well. But so far Adguard developers were always able to fix those from their end. I have no idea what the problem may be with Avast. Actually the BSODS are very rare. I'm on my work notebook around 6 hours a day, 5 days a week and so far had only one while testing Norton 24.
Defender Ui with Cyberlock and Adguard has been excellent combo for me, Adguard has excellent options
I'm using Kaspersky standard & Kaspersky free on 2 different laptops with no problems at all.
Where is Webroot and Comodo?
I used it with ESET, gdata, fsecure and bitdefender no issues.
I've had issues with AdGuard crashing but that was sorted with (I think) with Windows reinstalling,no particular AV - at the moment all seems well (I hope) 
I'm not sure, but I remember being told that for web protection let one ignore the other, i.e., in Adguard, exclude the security product, and vice versa.
Not sure what is wrong with Adguard desk, but after continued issues mainly crashes, which is a shame as I've used it for years, I've uninstalled it at least for now - I'm trying Ublock Lite which so far seems pretty good,
It's simple. We don't use two security products because they conflict with each other. The same applies to network filtering also. Two different products filtering your network traffic is going to cause issues. More with some than others especially products with HTTPS scanning but even without. There would also be downsides of higher CPU usage, slow browsing some of which you may not notice once you get used to it. The best way to use AdGuard for Desktop is with a product that doesn't filter network traffic by default like Microsoft Defender. Don't even use MD's network protection feature which is useless 99% of the time anyway and increases CPU usage.
I remember having a conflict with Adguard, Glasswire and Veeam Agent several years ago causing some random Blue Bcreen issues. I can't recall what AV I was running at the time or how I resolved it in end though.
I had a BSOD issue with AdGuard that happen when I open bookmark folders in my browser, I contacted the support, and they ask me to reinstall AdGuard, I follow their advice but nothing changed, then I found that the BSOD issue is an old issue and users still face it.
I used AD guard with several products. I only got issues with Bitdefender (SSL filtering, see post of above from @SeriousHoax). With Trend Micro, MS Defender, Emsisoft and F-secure I got no issues. For Trend I needed to exclude some sites so the webprotection can do his work (batch.tmok.tm, dataservice-tc-batch.tmok.tm and carbon.fb.trendmicro.com).
Lately I do have some issues with ADguard but they are not related to AV-products.
Lately I do have some issues with ADguard but they are not related to AV-products.
I have yes with the logs, but not heard anything yet, not really got time at the moment to get to involved with the problem, finding UBlock lite interesting.
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