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Title: Antivirus for Vista
Post by: dhavalmistry on September 28, 2007, 08:12:23 PM
I was wondering which antivirus program is compatible with Vista 32-bit

I am only aware of 2 so far

1. Avast (this is the one I use)

2. Norton

I have heard that Mcafee is coming out with vista compatibility with its new 2008 version and also pc-cillin is coming out with a version  that is vista compatible, but I am not sure if their release dates or anything.....
Title: Re: Antivirus for Vista
Post by: Harvey Birdman on September 28, 2007, 08:53:03 PM
I'm partial to Nod32. I don't know about their Vista compatability, though.
Title: Re: Antivirus for Vista
Post by: reck on September 29, 2007, 08:44:36 AM
AVG also works
Title: Re: Antivirus for Vista
Post by: Dark Fire on September 29, 2007, 11:48:22 AM
Doesn't Windows Live OneCare work?
Title: Re: Antivirus for Vista
Post by: dhavalmistry on September 29, 2007, 11:50:51 AM
Quote from: Dark Fire on September 29, 2007, 11:48:22 AM
Doesn't Windows Live OneCare work?

ya but I dont trust microsoft antivirus......besides you have to pay monthly or something for the protection......
Title: Re: Antivirus for Vista
Post by: andytw on September 29, 2007, 02:42:26 PM
Nod 32 is compatible with both 32 & 64 bit Vista 8)
Title: Re: Antivirus for Vista
Post by: NWsenior07 on September 30, 2007, 04:56:56 PM
My new Dell with 32 bit Vista home premium came with McAfee installed, it does a good job of updating itself, it can eat up some resourses when it wants to but that is the nature of the beast I suppose.
Title: Re: Antivirus for Vista
Post by: Saurav on September 30, 2007, 06:22:16 PM
I think AVG is the best freeware antivirus for Vista (32/64bit). It's not pretty to look a but it does it's job very well.
Title: Re: Antivirus for Vista
Post by: dhavalmistry on September 30, 2007, 08:40:51 PM
actually I wouldnt mind spending a little cash on things like antivirus (but only if its worth it)

is AVG Internet security 7.5 any good?
Title: Re: Antivirus for Vista
Post by: Oshyan on September 30, 2007, 11:51:55 PM
I've used AVG free on all my systems (4-8 of them) for years now and no problems. Ironically I've found it even more reliable than many of the commercial apps at times (e.g. a friend will send me a file and I'll find a virus in it and they'll tell me their own virus scanner found nothing - these are not false positives either). It's also reasonably low in resource use. I just got Vista myself and was glad to find AVG already compatible with it. So I've got it installed and it's doing fine so far. Above all I would recommend *against* any Norton or Mcaffee product for paid A/V. If you want to pay I'd say PC Cillin, Kaspersky, NOD32, or CA/ETrust are good.

- Oshyan
Title: Re: Antivirus for Vista
Post by: dhavalmistry on October 01, 2007, 12:06:49 AM
thanx Oshyan, I just bought the AVG Internet Security and my computer is much faster and has more free memory than before....