Best ANTI-VIRUS program that is Vista compatible

[Gary VanderMolen]

If you really believe that, I have a bridge to sell you in Brooklyn...

If you spend any time hanging out in the microsoft.public.windows.vista.mail
newsgroup, you'd know that score after score of users are reporting that
McAfee antivirus has trashed their Windows Mail message database.

Gary VanderMolen

Judy, the best Antivirus for a new Operating System is the one that
comes with your PC, it should have been seriously tested by the PC's
manufacturer in terms of compatibility and performance.

Don't uninstall it, you will never know how many tricks Dell did to
install it correctly in your new PC. You should delay any Antivirus
change until Vista gets its SP1.

I have a new Dell with Vista and my free McAfee Security Center just expired.
I am going to change AV systems. Do I uninstall McAfee Securit Center
before installing a new AV? Anyting I should be aware of before doing so?

Thanks
Juan I. Cahis
Santiago de Chile (South America)
Note: Please forgive me for my bad English, I am trying to improve it!

 

[Rock]

Judy, the best Antivirus for a new Operating System is the one that
comes with your PC, it should have been seriously tested by the PC's
manufacturer in terms of compatibility and performance.

Don't uninstall it, you will never know how many tricks Dell did to
install it correctly in your new PC. You should delay any Antivirus
change until Vista gets its SP1.

I have a new Dell with Vista and my free McAfee Security Center just
expired.
I am going to change AV systems. Do I uninstall McAfee Securit Center
before installing a new AV? Anyting I should be aware of before doing so?

Thanks
Juan I. Cahis
Santiago de Chile (South America)
Note: Please forgive me for my bad English, I am trying to improve it!


It's a marketing decision by OEM's on what 3rd party software to include,
and cost is the driving factor. What works best is down on the list.

 

[Leythos]

Judy, the best Antivirus for a new Operating System is the one that
comes with your PC, it should have been seriously tested by the PC's
manufacturer in terms of compatibility and performance.

Don't uninstall it, you will never know how many tricks Dell did to
install it correctly in your new PC. You should delay any Antivirus
change until Vista gets its SP1.

LOL - the AV product that comes on your big-box PC is the one that gave
the most perks to the vendor. The one that comes on your computer is often
a trial version and expires in 90 days. The one that shipped on your
computer often is not the best, it's the cheapest or the one that paid the
computer vendor the most.

Personally I would install Symantec Antivirus 10.2 for Workstations and
Servers on any PC I wanted to protect, but there is a minimum purchase qty
of 5 units. Next I would pick Kapersky (unless in a military
installation), last I would pick McAfee and AVG.

 

[Dave Cox]

LOL - the AV product that comes on your big-box PC is the one that
gave the most perks to the vendor. The one that comes on your
computer is often a trial version and expires in 90 days. The one
that shipped on your computer often is not the best, it's the
cheapest or the one that paid the computer vendor the most.

Personally I would install Symantec Antivirus 10.2 for
Workstations and Servers on any PC I wanted to protect, but there
is a minimum purchase qty of 5 units. Next I would pick Kapersky
(unless in a military installation), last I would pick McAfee and
AVG.

"Best" is an opinion and opinions are like........Do you get the
picture?

The thing you need to do is download the trial or free versions of
different Virus scanners and see which one fits your needs and your
preferences the most (one at a time of course) Also do a google
search on reviews and read to make an informed choice of your own.

Personally I would try and stay away from those so called "The
works" packages that do numerous tasks such as firewall, system
monitoring, anti-spam and anti-virus, but make your own choice after
you do some research.

Heres as good of place to start as any

http://tinyurl.com/344jht

Hope this helps
Dave

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[Mark]

http://www.av-comparatives.org//seiten/ergebnisse/report13.pdf

Try taking a look at the above rest report of a number of antivirus
packages. It is quite comprehensive.

Regards

Sable

 

[Guest]

I installed Avast 4 Home Edition (I have uninstalled Norton Internet Security
2007 using Norton's Removal Tool). The installation finised with two
instances of "unsuccessful installation". After the installation, I did a
scan, and it appears to be fine.

The next day, my PC would not recover from sleep mode. I did a force
shut-down than start. Windows Vista repaired my PC by removing the Avast 4
Home Edition, and re-install Norton Internet Security 2007.

Can you tell me what is happening?

 

[Spirit]

It must have run System Restore.... Uninstall Norton again.
Make sure you have the latest Avast Home Free. Download File to
PC. Find it and RIGHT CLICK - RUN AS ADMINISTRATOR.

http://www.avast.com/eng/avast_4_home.html

No other Anti-Virus should be present. There is a chance that the Avast just
triggered a problem you were going to have anyway.

 

[Kathryn]

I agree with Spirit. In fact, all trusted software should be installed on
Vista machines by running the exe as administrator.

Someone mentioned Kaspersky: I successfully installed the Kaspersky
Internet Security Suite (v6) on Vista (Business). It froze once after the
recommended reboot, but has had no problems since then.

Best wishes
Kathryn