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Is Norton Anti-Virus compatiable with Vista? On my old computer, I downloaded
Norton when I had Windows XP SP2. I had no problems. Is Vista Anti-Virus?
 
Tom said:
Is Norton Anti-Virus compatiable with Vista? On my old computer, I
downloaded
Norton when I had Windows XP SP2. I had no problems. Is Vista Anti-Virus?
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You can look for Vista compatible Symantec products here
http://www.symantec.com/index.htm

There are links for home and office products as well as a link to products
that can be upgraded to work with Vista.
You should install an antivirus product on Vista.
 
Thanks for your reply, Jim. Are the A.V. products you suggested, free? Which
one would you reccomend?
 
Norton is not free. You can try AVG. It is a pretty good AV and it is free. http://www.grisoft.com/


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Jason
Windows Vista RTM
MS Office 2007 RTM

Thanks for your reply, Jim. Are the A.V. products you suggested, free? Which
one would you reccomend?
 
Well, I tried to install Norton and Vista wouldnt allow it. Norton was only
compatible Windows XP. Why wouldnt Vista have an Anti-Virus protection
programmed already along with the firewall, spyware.... I do not like this
new Vista or IE7....
 
Tom said:
Thanks for your reply, Jim. Are the A.V. products you suggested, free?
Which
one would you reccomend?
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Avast and AVG have free Vista compatible offerings. Both work fine.
 
Tom said:
Well, I tried to install Norton and Vista wouldnt allow it. Norton was
only
compatible Windows XP. Why wouldnt Vista have an Anti-Virus protection
programmed already along with the firewall, spyware.... I do not like this
new Vista or IE7....
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None of the AV programs that were designed for XP will run on Vista.
Symantec does have Vista compatible apps.
 
Ok, I downloaded the AVG instead. It is not free. Yes, they do have free
Trial versions. Guess thats better than nothing. Thnx for helping! Hope this
avg does the job.
 
Hey, thanks, Billy! Does this avg have an intrusion alert like Norton did? I
need pc classess. :P
 
Tom said:
Ok, I downloaded the AVG instead. It is not free. Yes, they do have free
Trial versions. Guess thats better than nothing. Thnx for helping! Hope
this
avg does the job.
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AVG has a free version. I'm not sure where you are looking.
 
It alerts when there's a virus and also you can scheldue it to scan every
day and udates every day at lest once. It's a really good programme and it
is widely used accross the world. Very light on your system too. The next
one we are all waiting fro is the firewall from zonelabs. Register here and
they will notify you when its ready.

http://www.zonelabs.com/store/content/catalog/products/vista.jsp

I am sticking to windows built in firewall meantime. it shoudl keep thigns
fine. especially if you ahve a router which will probably have a built in
firewall anyway.

That abiout covers you if you get a free spyware from lavasoft.com (adaware)
that completes free protection.

http://www.lavasoft.com/products/ad-aware_se_personal.php

Billy
 
It alerts when there's a virus
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Only if it recognizes it, I would guess.
and also you can scheldue it to scan every day
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Don't rely too much on scans. Finding by scanning means your system is
already infected - in which case you cannot really rely on it.
and udates every day at lest once.
Good.

It's a really good programme
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What's the detection rate?
and it is widely used accross the world.
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That does'nt mean anything.
Very light on your system too.
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The next one we are all waiting fro is the firewall from zonelabs.
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For what reason exactly?
Register here and they will notify you when its ready.

http://www.zonelabs.com/store/content/catalog/products/vista.jsp

I am sticking to windows built in firewall meantime. it shoudl keep thigns
fine. especially if you ahve a router which will probably have a built in
firewall anyway.

That abiout covers you if you get a free spyware from lavasoft.com (adaware)
that completes free protection.
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Protection from what? How about not installing adware at all? How
about thinking of how nasties get in in the first place and start
acting upon that?
 
I'M running Norton Internet Security 2007 and it works perfectly. Has
stopped a couple intrusions etc so far. Looks good working with VISTA.

Dan
Sudbury, Canada
 
Thanks, guys! I got things up n running now! I appreciate all the help yins
gave me. This is a cool forum.
 
I also can't understand why Vista doesn't have total inbuilt security, Norton
causes me immense problems, cannot get into my e-mail, have tried helpdesk
without success. Am thinking of upgrading to Vista but not if all these
problems, can anyone recommend a better antivirus compatible with Windows?
 
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