Best ANTI-VIRUS program that is Vista compatible

[VB Programmer]

In your opinion, what is the BEST antivirus program that is out there
(compatible with Vista.)

I've been using Norton for YEARS, which is unstable at times. I don't like
McAfee either.

I'm contimplating either Kaspersky 6 or BitDefender 10, but don't know much
about these.

Thanks....

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

I've been using the free version of Avast! with Windows Vista
and it works wonderful without any issues.
http://www.avast.com/eng/avast_4_home.html


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Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows Shell/User

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In your opinion, what is the BEST antivirus program that is out there
(compatible with Vista.)

I've been using Norton for YEARS, which is unstable at times. I don't like
McAfee either.

I'm contimplating either Kaspersky 6 or BitDefender 10, but don't know much
about these.

Thanks....

 

[Tom Porterfield]

In your opinion, what is the BEST antivirus program that is out there
(compatible with Vista.)

I've been using Norton for YEARS, which is unstable at times. I don't
like McAfee either.

I'm contimplating either Kaspersky 6 or BitDefender 10, but don't know
much about these.

Look into NOD32 from http://www.eset.com. They have a 30 day trial version
available so you can give it a go and see if you like it - many do.

 

[Les]

NOD32 is working well on my RC2 Vista.

 

[Rock]

In your opinion, what is the BEST antivirus program that is out there
(compatible with Vista.)

I've been using Norton for YEARS, which is unstable at times. I don't
like McAfee either.

I'm contimplating either Kaspersky 6 or BitDefender 10, but don't know
much about these.

Search the newsgroup posts for discussions about anti-virus on Vista. This
has been discussed many times.

 

[gunnbear]

I will vouch for BitDefender. I've been using it with little or no
problems. I used it on Win XP Pro as well and it caught everything
extremely well - even the new virus stuff. I found out after I caught
it that they where the only program that caught almost all of the new
viruses that Consumer Reports created for a controlled lab experiment.
Best money I ever spent!

 

[Richard Urban]

Best is, and always has been, subjective. At this point in time just knowing
which ones are compatible is a being step ahead of the pack.

Until one antivirus program has proven itself superior (when used in Vista)
over a few months period I wouldn't call any "the best".

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
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Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

 

[Roy Coorne]

In your opinion, what is the BEST antivirus program that is out there
(compatible with Vista.)

I've been using Norton for YEARS, which is unstable at times. I don't like
McAfee either.

I'm contimplating either Kaspersky 6 or BitDefender 10, but don't know much
about these.

The best virus scanner is always the software which *I* use at present;-)

All major virus scanner will be Vista compatible very soon.

At present, I use Avast and AVG on my Vista Ultima RC2 b5744
installations.

On my XP Pro SP2 installations, I use NOD32 and Kaspersky 6, and even
Avira AntiVir.

(Norton? McAfee? Long, long ago...)


Roy

 

[Alexander Suhovey]

I've been using the free version of Avast! with Windows Vista
and it works wonderful without any issues.
http://www.avast.com/eng/avast_4_home.html

Same here.

 

[Jabez Gan [MVP]]

I would say NOD32. It doesn't give much performance impact like Norton or
the bigger AV software.

 

[VB Programmer]

Thanks everyone!

Same here.

 

[Conor]

In your opinion, what is the BEST antivirus program that is out there
(compatible with Vista.)

I've been using Norton for YEARS, which is unstable at times. I don't like
McAfee either.

NOD32 from Eset.

 

[Guest]

Im using Kaspersky Anti virus 6 with windows vista basic, Kaspersky reports
that all protection components are running yet Widows security reports that
Kaspersky isnt turned on at all, after the prompt to turn Kaspersky back on
it still reports Malware Protection Off. What report Is correct and is my
antivirus even running at all ????

 

[David H. Lipman]

From: "confused..." <[email protected]>

| Im using Kaspersky Anti virus 6 with windows vista basic, Kaspersky reports
| that all protection components are running yet Widows security reports that
| Kaspersky isnt turned on at all, after the prompt to turn Kaspersky back on
| it still reports Malware Protection Off. What report Is correct and is my
| antivirus even running at all ????
|

Trust Kaspersky NOT Microsoft's Security Center. Remeber if it was up to Microsoft they
would have you run OneCare which is the lowest rated anti virus product on the market.

 

[D. Spencer Hines]

I am SURE happy I'm sitting here with XP Pro SP2 and Norton Internet
Security 2007, which works SMOOTHLY and EFFICIENTLY and takes up VERY little
of my time worrying about it. I just update it daily and it does all it's
supposed to do.

Windows Defender does the SAME.

DSH

 

[Guest]

Thanks David, i had been told Kaspersky was One of the best Antiviruses on
the market , im glad i didnt remove it.

 

[Mhzjunkie]

D. Spencer Hines spewed out this bit, and i'll scatter a few bits myself:

I am SURE happy I'm sitting here with XP Pro SP2 and Norton Internet
Security 2007, which works SMOOTHLY and EFFICIENTLY and takes up VERY
little of my time worrying about it. I just update it daily and it
does all it's supposed to do.

And I'm sure glad you're happy. Just the other day I had to clean up an XP
computer that had Norton internet security on it. It was infected to the
point that the owner couldn't even use it. Norton antivirus said everything
was fine and dandy. Scanned it with Kapsersky and cleaned a crap can full of
infected files. Even the restore partition was loaded with infected .HTML
files.

Windows Defender does the SAME.

Yeah, that's a spyware killer right there.

--
Mhzjunkie

1 PRINT "Windows Vista ERROR"
GOTO 1
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[RobDee]

D. Spencer Hines spewed out this bit, and i'll scatter a few bits myself:


And I'm sure glad you're happy. Just the other day I had to clean up an XP
computer that had Norton internet security on it. It was infected to the
point that the owner couldn't even use it. Norton antivirus said
everything was fine and dandy. Scanned it with Kapsersky and cleaned a
crap can full of infected files. Even the restore partition was loaded
with infected .HTML files.

I can echo this a hundred times over. The record figure that Kaspersky
removed from a Norton supposed Internet Secure machine was 1023 items - some
of which were real dangers!

Isn't there a story going around that malware writers specifically exploit
Norton "protected" computers?

Norton is the biggest POS I ever seen - and as you said - it can get so bad
that the computer becomes inoperable. While Norton happily reporst
everything is hunky dory!

 

[David H. Lipman]

From: "D. Spencer Hines" <[email protected]>

| I am SURE happy I'm sitting here with XP Pro SP2 and Norton Internet
| Security 2007, which works SMOOTHLY and EFFICIENTLY and takes up VERY little
| of my time worrying about it. I just update it daily and it does all it's
| supposed to do.
|
| Windows Defender does the SAME.
|
| DSH


Windows Defender is NOT anti virus. WD covers non-viral malware of the class
adware/spyware.

 

[Mickey Segal]

I am SURE happy I'm sitting here with XP Pro SP2 and Norton Internet
Security 2007, which works SMOOTHLY and EFFICIENTLY and takes up VERY
little of my time worrying about it. I just update it daily and it does
all it's supposed to do.

Very funny. But seriously, Norton products slow down a machine very much,
particularly when starting the computer. The Norton 2007 products are way
worse than previous versions. I switched to NOD32, which runs with very
little overhead and has the best record of any antivirus product. Another
product to consider is AVG free version, since NOD32 is about $30 for the
first copy and $20 for other copies and renewals.