Rc1: Thank God (Bill Gates) Beta 2 is history (Part II)!One

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One further General Discussion question: Does anyone have an opinion on
whether or not to weait for the Windows Live One Care Anti Virus suite to
become available for Vista, or just download one of the free antivirus
providers like Avast or Trend Micro now?
 
I've been waiting on it also but from what I hear it won't be ready until
Vista hits the store shelves so I am using a freebie at the moment. Wish
they would get it out soon though.
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Protect your system with whatever is available now. You can remove one
antivirus program and replace it with another anytime you want.
 
I've been receiving e-mails from the One Care "UNDEAD" team about this issue
for the past 2 weeks.
They have always stated;and continue to do so; that " One Care" will not
be compatible with Vista till RTM.
Which; is no problem;
Why would you pay for something that you can get for free?
Avast is free;and RC1 compatible; I think AVG free is also?
Chk out Avast.

Jeff
 
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turn off the option for AVG to "certify mail." It is a headache that causes
lost message bodies that are irrecoverable, besides being totally
unnecessary, as is all integrated email scanning.

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After furious head scratching, Jeff asked:

| I've been receiving e-mails from the One Care "UNDEAD" team about
| this issue for the past 2 weeks.
| They have always stated;and continue to do so; that " One Care"
| will not be compatible with Vista till RTM.
| Which; is no problem;
| Why would you pay for something that you can get for free?
| Avast is free;and RC1 compatible; I think AVG free is also?
| Chk out Avast.
|
| Jeff
|
| || Protect your system with whatever is available now. You can remove
|| one antivirus program and replace it with another anytime you want.
||
|| ||| One further General Discussion question: Does anyone have an
||| opinion on whether or not to weait for the Windows Live One Care
||| Anti Virus suite to become available for Vista, or just download
||| one of the free antivirus providers like Avast or Trend Micro now?
||| --
||| Buddha Bless You
 
Mikwiz-

I thought George Burns played God. Is it this Gates guy? I'll have to
look him up somewhere. He's doing awfully well against infectious diseases
considering his time spent vs. the medical establishment's. My money's on
him for an HIV vaccine.

The answer to that is easy for most of us. Get an AV program on your
boxes now.

1) Win One Care is a very good program from can I dare say it> Softie Soft.
It's economic in real estate and resource use, and has a very good backup
not quite as versatile as Vista's but pretty close. It's $33 bucks and
that's as good a deal as you're going to get these days for 3 licenses--you
can use it on 3 boxes--that's $11 a box considering what it does. Could you
do better if it provided backup functionality alone?

2) Right now though and with my best information, Win One Care is not going
to install on Vista until sometime between it's internal RTM Oct 25 and it's
public launch Jan 30, 2007.

3) Obviously you need to get an antivirus program onto every box you have.
Trend works very very well for me on Vista. I was, like most people who
have had several builds, using Avast, but although I think I can do a
workaround it didn't insall for a lot of us with the release of 5472 so I
went to Trend. MSFT had an offer on a web page, and I took them up on it.
Currently I'm using Trend and a lot of people I know are and we're well
satisfied on RC1 with it.

Here's the MSFT Trend Partner offer for Vista
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/viruses/wsc/en-us/windowsvistabeta2.mspx

My understanding is from other people posting here that McAFee and AGV also
are working on RC1 and builds after Beta 2, so you have options but don't go
without AV software ever. You can't afford not to be protected.

CH
 
Follow-up: downloaded and installed from the link in these forums for the
latest RC! Avast AntiVirus program. Installed and runs
pppeeerrrrrfffectly!!!! on my 32 bit laptop. I am going to try it now on my
64bit desktop. This was a real winner. Thanks again Jeff and the person who
provided that Avast link in the RC1 forums (tried search "RC1".
 
Thanks Chadster!!! Greatresponse and info. I went with the Avast, though, B4
I received your post. Avast is working just fine on my 32 bit RC1 laptop. I
am going to try installing on it on the 64bot desktop next. If I have any
problems, I will sure take your advice on the other antivirus companies you
listed. Thank again, and I didnt know Gates has HIV? How can God get HIV??
Did Jobs give it to him???
 
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