Vista Beta & Virus Scanners

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Dennis Gaither

Are there any Virus Scanner vendors with a scanner that is supported by
Vista? McAfee is working on one but I don't believe it is out yet. What does
everyone else use for now? Thanks in advance for any advice.
 
Dennis Gaither said:
Are there any Virus Scanner vendors with a scanner that is supported by
Vista? McAfee is working on one but I don't believe it is out yet. What
does everyone else use for now? Thanks in advance for any advice.
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http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/viruses/wsc/en-us/windowsvistabeta2.mspx

There are many others that work, also. Why not try searching the
newsgroups, since this topic has been widely discussed and there are several
recommendations, as well as warnings.
 
Avast works and, i believe, AVG works too (free version) I have tried Avast
on previous build and found it good (i'm trying the PC Cillin beta at the
moment) AVG has been used by me but i did have a few problems with it and
haven't tried it since - although i will try it again.

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I do indeed have the Newly Released Version of McAfee Internet Security,
which works just fine on Windows Vista Beta 2 (with a few Minor Installation
Problem's on X64 Version's of Windows Vista Beta 2, Just FYI).
 
I downloaded the MS patch to make Free AVG work, and it seemed fine.

But now each time I restart I get an error message.
 
Bill, as i said i haven't tried AVG lately. The last time i used it the
application was constantly accessing the floppy drive so i had to take it
off.

Avast has worked well, so too has PC Cillin beta (details of the pc cillin
beta are available in the security window of control panel (in the anti
virus section))


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PC Cillin works fine, I have however conversed with the company in that at
present PC Cillin 2007 BETA is not Vista compatible
 
<<the application was constantly accessing the floppy drive

Thanks. You have to uncheck that option.

I was hoping someone else here might have it up and running. The error was
failure to initialize
 
On Sun, 20 Aug 2006 11:53:29 -0400, "Bill Condie"

}I was hoping someone else here might have it up and running. The error was
}failure to initialize

I loaded the latest version (AVG 7.1 SoHo edition) just fine. The only
issue was logging into different accounts would trigger a full system
scan. I changed the scheduler and all is good again...

Later,
Dave
 
Bill Condie said:
I downloaded the MS patch to make Free AVG work, and it seemed fine.

But now each time I restart I get an error message.
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I use TrendMicro PC-cillin Internet Suite 14 in Vista, and I have no issues
to report. In fact, on my current dual-boot box (Vista on one
partition/hard disk and XP Pro (with SP2+all hotfixes and patches) on the
other), Vista is where I'm spending most of my time....for reasons of
stability.

You read right. Vista is trumping XP in stability.

I have Office 2007 beta 2 installed on both partitions, and my two primary
Office apps (Word and Outlook) are not just more stable in Vista, but
actually run smoother. I have Windows Live Messenger and Yahoo Messenger 8
installed also, along with the new AOL 9 SE beta for Vista and XP (since AOL
became free for broadband users like myself, I've started joining more of
their beta programs, especially relating to Vista).

So far, my only nitpick is with Diskeeper 10 for Vista; it refuses to
install (error 1920 during the install). Very Frustrating. So right now I
have no disk defragmenter beyond the very basic one included with Vista.
 
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