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What is a good Anti Virus program.

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Old 02-28-2007
Chris
 

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Re: What is a good Anti Virus program.
Trend Micro scan is actually pretty handy as well as being almost
non-existent in terms of system resources.
I have been using AVG since 97' on my home systems.
I use Trend for the Networked domain at work and AVG on my home systems.
I have not tried either with Vista yet.

<Colin Thompson> wrote in message
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I have the Vista beta version of OneCare beta 1.5 and while it works I don't
particularily like it as it's more than AV, it's backup, a firewall and a
defragger as well.

I have used AVG free edition which worked and then didn't and then did again
on Vista. I prefer it to AVAST, though my experience with AVG is that it is
great at finding viruses, but not so great at removing them. Avast for me
finds lots of false positives and One Care Live seems to be aimed at less
competent PC users and seems basic.

Colin T
"Phil" <Phil@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I tried AVS and they responded with this:
> We are sorry, but Active Virus Shield (AVS) is not supported on Vista. A
> future release of AVS might be available for Vista.
>
> Thank you for your interest in our products.
>
> Regards,
> AOL Support Team
>
> Then I tried One Care from the company that built Vista. And I get an
> error
> saying I need Windows XP Sp2. Hmmmm.
>
>


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Best Regards,
Chris Moor
Vigilante aka ARS_Komachi


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Old 02-28-2007
farid
 

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Re: What is a good Anti Virus program.
AVG 7.5 works great with Vista RC1. Avast is either not understood by us
newbies or just slows down Vista.
Farid
"Roy Coorne" <rcoorne@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> GeekUnit schrieb:
>> "Phil" <Phil@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:BBEB2D9C-830F-4191-B30A-0F45009D7674@microsoft.com...
>>> I tried AVS and they responded with this:
>>> We are sorry, but Active Virus Shield (AVS) is not supported on Vista.
>>> A
>>> future release of AVS might be available for Vista.
>>>
>>> Thank you for your interest in our products.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> AOL Support Team
>>>
>>> Then I tried One Care from the company that built Vista. And I get an
>>> error
>>> saying I need Windows XP Sp2. Hmmmm.
>>>
>>>

>>
>> Not that it's the greatest AntiSpyware, but know that Windows Defender is
>> enabled in Vista by default. Besides that, I use ClaimWin AntiVirus in
>> Vista. It's a Windows port of the most popular Linux AntiVirus. Can't
>> say how great it is though, have been lucky enough not to have any virus
>> troubles in the past year.

>
> ClamWin? which has reached the mature version no 0.88.7?
>
> <http://www.clamwin.com/>
>
> I prefer Avast!
>
> Roy


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Old 02-28-2007
 

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Re: What is a good Anti Virus program.
I also tried the the Trend micro beta with Vista (RC2) I can't recall the
version of hand. I found it slowed my system down and gave up and
uninstalled it, though some find this happens with them others don't it
seems and recommend it.

Colin T
"Chris" <kewlvigilante@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:C1456068-36CA-46E4-8620-CA67BB87DA28@microsoft.com...
> Trend Micro scan is actually pretty handy as well as being almost
> non-existent in terms of system resources.
> I have been using AVG since 97' on my home systems.
> I use Trend for the Networked domain at work and AVG on my home systems.
> I have not tried either with Vista yet.
>
> <Colin Thompson> wrote in message
> news:5890400D-2AA3-4B95-9C99-002783F661AA@microsoft.com...
> I have the Vista beta version of OneCare beta 1.5 and while it works I
> don't
> particularily like it as it's more than AV, it's backup, a firewall and a
> defragger as well.
>
> I have used AVG free edition which worked and then didn't and then did
> again
> on Vista. I prefer it to AVAST, though my experience with AVG is that it
> is
> great at finding viruses, but not so great at removing them. Avast for me
> finds lots of false positives and One Care Live seems to be aimed at less
> competent PC users and seems basic.
>
> Colin T
> "Phil" <Phil@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:BBEB2D9C-830F-4191-B30A-0F45009D7674@microsoft.com...
>>I tried AVS and they responded with this:
>> We are sorry, but Active Virus Shield (AVS) is not supported on Vista. A
>> future release of AVS might be available for Vista.
>>
>> Thank you for your interest in our products.
>>
>> Regards,
>> AOL Support Team
>>
>> Then I tried One Care from the company that built Vista. And I get an
>> error
>> saying I need Windows XP Sp2. Hmmmm.
>>
>>

>
> --
> Best Regards,
> Chris Moor
> Vigilante aka ARS_Komachi
>
>


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Old 02-28-2007
Roy Coorne
 

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Re: What is a good Anti Virus program.
farid schrieb:
> AVG 7.5 works great with Vista RC1. Avast is either not understood by us
> newbies or just slows down Vista.


Avast works with all versions of Vista. Slow? May be you have less
than the recommended 1 GB RAM...

Roy
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