Robert,
After recent AVG update, customer will receive notification as "AVG is in passive mode" when there are other security program installed on your PC.
This update was released to inform customers about the necessity of having a single antivirus program on their computer.
It is not recommended to have two security program running on same PC which might cause various issues for the PC at any time.
We do not want our customers to face any difficulties because of these conflicts with antivirus program.
Before the latest update, AVG was working well with my other anti-virus software. The latest AVG is in passive mode and requires me to uninstall other anti-virus software. For this reason, I have stop my subscription to AVG.
The conflict between antivirus program is the same from the beginning but it is our duty to inform customers about the impact of the issues that would occur, hence we decided to highlight customers through this update. We appreciate your understanding in this matter.
It is not possible to run AVG in active mode when Malwarebytes is installed on your PC but I assure you that AVG Antivirus protection will be more advanced and will provide the best protection for your PC.
Robert, Also have a look @ these 2 links from the Malwarebytes forum…
[1] (https://forums.malwarebytes.com/topic/213159-avg-passive-modemalwarebytes-conflict/?tab=comments#comment-1175020)
[2] (https://forums.malwarebytes.com/topic/202064-avg-passive-mode-malwarebytes-real-time-protection-interfering/)
AVG Guru
Robert,
After recent AVG update, customer will receive notification as "AVG is in passive mode" when there are other security program installed on your PC.
This update was released to inform customers about the necessity of having a single antivirus program on their computer.
It is not recommended to have two security program running on same PC which might cause various issues for the PC at any time.
We do not want our customers to face any difficulties because of these conflicts with antivirus program.