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Old 03-01-2007
VB Programmer
 

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Best ANTI-VIRUS program that is Vista compatible
In your opinion, what is the BEST antivirus program that is out there
(compatible with Vista.)

I've been using Norton for YEARS, which is unstable at times. I don't like
McAfee either.

I'm contimplating either Kaspersky 6 or BitDefender 10, but don't know much
about these.

Thanks....


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Old 03-01-2007
Carey Frisch [MVP]
 

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Re: Best ANTI-VIRUS program that is Vista compatible
I've been using the free version of Avast! with Windows Vista
and it works wonderful without any issues.
http://www.avast.com/eng/avast_4_home.html


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"VB Programmer" wrote:

In your opinion, what is the BEST antivirus program that is out there
(compatible with Vista.)

I've been using Norton for YEARS, which is unstable at times. I don't like
McAfee either.

I'm contimplating either Kaspersky 6 or BitDefender 10, but don't know much
about these.

Thanks....


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Old 03-01-2007
Tom Porterfield
 

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Re: Best ANTI-VIRUS program that is Vista compatible
"VB Programmer" <donotemailme@somewhere.com> wrote in message
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> In your opinion, what is the BEST antivirus program that is out there
> (compatible with Vista.)
>
> I've been using Norton for YEARS, which is unstable at times. I don't
> like McAfee either.
>
> I'm contimplating either Kaspersky 6 or BitDefender 10, but don't know
> much about these.



Look into NOD32 from http://www.eset.com. They have a 30 day trial version
available so you can give it a go and see if you like it - many do.
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Old 03-01-2007
Les
 

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Re: Best ANTI-VIRUS program that is Vista compatible
NOD32 is working well on my RC2 Vista.



"VB Programmer" <donotemailme@somewhere.com> wrote in message
news:%23Eayp2nQHHA.1212@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
> In your opinion, what is the BEST antivirus program that is out there
> (compatible with Vista.)
>
> I've been using Norton for YEARS, which is unstable at times. I don't
> like McAfee either.
>
> I'm contimplating either Kaspersky 6 or BitDefender 10, but don't know
> much about these.
>
> Thanks....
>


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Old 03-01-2007
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Re: Best ANTI-VIRUS program that is Vista compatible
"VB Programmer" wrote

> In your opinion, what is the BEST antivirus program that is out there
> (compatible with Vista.)
>
> I've been using Norton for YEARS, which is unstable at times. I don't
> like McAfee either.
>
> I'm contimplating either Kaspersky 6 or BitDefender 10, but don't know
> much about these.


Search the newsgroup posts for discussions about anti-virus on Vista. This
has been discussed many times.

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Old 03-01-2007
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Re: Best ANTI-VIRUS program that is Vista compatible
I will vouch for BitDefender. I've been using it with little or no
problems. I used it on Win XP Pro as well and it caught everything
extremely well - even the new virus stuff. I found out after I caught
it that they where the only program that caught almost all of the new
viruses that Consumer Reports created for a controlled lab experiment.
Best money I ever spent!

On Jan 27, 10:33 pm, "Rock" <r...@nospam.net> wrote:
> "VB Programmer" wrote
>
> > In your opinion, what is the BEST antivirus program that is out there
> > (compatible with Vista.)

>
> > I've been using Norton for YEARS, which is unstable at times. I don't
> > like McAfee either.

>
> > I'm contimplating either Kaspersky 6 orBitDefender10, but don't know
> > much about these.Search the newsgroup posts for discussions about anti-virus on Vista. This

> has been discussed many times.
>
> --
> Rock [MVP - User/Shell]


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Old 03-01-2007
Richard Urban
 

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Re: Best ANTI-VIRUS program that is Vista compatible
Best is, and always has been, subjective. At this point in time just knowing
which ones are compatible is a being step ahead of the pack.

Until one antivirus program has proven itself superior (when used in Vista)
over a few months period I wouldn't call any "the best".

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"VB Programmer" <donotemailme@somewhere.com> wrote in message
news:%23Eayp2nQHHA.1212@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
> In your opinion, what is the BEST antivirus program that is out there
> (compatible with Vista.)
>
> I've been using Norton for YEARS, which is unstable at times. I don't
> like McAfee either.
>
> I'm contimplating either Kaspersky 6 or BitDefender 10, but don't know
> much about these.
>
> Thanks....
>


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Old 03-01-2007
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Re: Best ANTI-VIRUS program that is Vista compatible
VB Programmer wrote:
> In your opinion, what is the BEST antivirus program that is out there
> (compatible with Vista.)
>
> I've been using Norton for YEARS, which is unstable at times. I don't like
> McAfee either.
>
> I'm contimplating either Kaspersky 6 or BitDefender 10, but don't know much
> about these.


The best virus scanner is always the software which *I* use at present;-)

All major virus scanner will be Vista compatible very soon.

At present, I use Avast and AVG on my Vista Ultima RC2 b5744
installations.

On my XP Pro SP2 installations, I use NOD32 and Kaspersky 6, and even
Avira AntiVir.

(Norton? McAfee? Long, long ago...)


Roy
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Old 03-01-2007
Alexander Suhovey
 

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Re: Best ANTI-VIRUS program that is Vista compatible
"Carey Frisch [MVP]" <cnfrisch@nospamgmail.com> wrote in message
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> I've been using the free version of Avast! with Windows Vista
> and it works wonderful without any issues.
> http://www.avast.com/eng/avast_4_home.html


Same here.

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Old 03-01-2007
Jabez Gan [MVP]
 

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Re: Best ANTI-VIRUS program that is Vista compatible
I would say NOD32. It doesn't give much performance impact like Norton or
the bigger AV software.

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"VB Programmer" <donotemailme@somewhere.com> wrote in message
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> In your opinion, what is the BEST antivirus program that is out there
> (compatible with Vista.)
>
> I've been using Norton for YEARS, which is unstable at times. I don't
> like McAfee either.
>
> I'm contimplating either Kaspersky 6 or BitDefender 10, but don't know
> much about these.
>
> Thanks....
>


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