IMPORTANT! Uninstall Other Vendor' s Antivirus before installing FortiClient

[L_FTNT]

I thought I need to mention this here to raise awareness so you won' t end up with endless headaches: Before installing Forticlient, you must uninstall your existing anti-virus applications. Here is a list of common antivirus programs that cannot co-exist with FortiClient: [ul]

Avast

AVG

BitDefender

CA

F-Secure

Kaspersky

McAfee

Panda

Symantec (Norton)

Trend Micro [/ul]

[L_FTNT]

This is mentioned on their website (and also in User' s Guide): http://www.forticlient.com/premium.html

[ede_pfau]

And this is the case EVEN if you don' t install the AV part of FortiClient! FC always installs a proxy for AV or web filter or whatever. The existing AV software notices that FC will install a filter driver " in front" of its own and will re-arrange the order. I suspect FC will do the same then...well, at least afterwards the proxy will stop working.

[rodeca]

You may add ESET Nod32 to that list . I tried installing it before and after Forticlient: both cases the web filter (at least) doesn' t work. But then: must we assume that any component of FClient requires that you install the AV component and no other AV? Ro

[bmann]

So, you have to uninstall another AV before FC install, even if only VPN is installed? But then you can install the another AV back, right? I run FC (VPN only) with avast free and it seems runnig.

[L_FTNT]

If you only have FortiClient VPN installed, you may be able to use other AV - however, you need to test out yourself to make sure they are compatible. I' ve tried FortiClient Web Filtering feature with Symantec End Point Protection - they seems to be working fine. According to my experience, it' s definitely not going to work, if you run FortiClient AV along with other AV products or the FortiClient Web Filtering feature with other Web Filtering product. Regards, L.Clarke

[rodeca]

More about NOD32 with Forticlient: I installed only Forti Webfilter. After that, I installed nod32. Both can work fine if you uncheck " HTTP analysis" in nod32 (it is not enough to uncheck " Activate AV & antispyware internet traffic" ). HIH RØ (as I' m working with the Spanish version, may be " HTTP analysis" and " Activate AV..." are not the exact words in English)