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Doofy
What is the best Anti-Virus For Vista?
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Bob
Doofy said:What is the best Anti-Virus For Vista?
Do a Google or similar search and compare. I have AVG free on some
machines and Avast another free and a very good AV program. I use NOD-32
on my personal laptop which is not a free program but IMPO it is one of
the best..Read what you can and make a decision on what seems best for
your situation...
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Robert Moir
Doofy said:What is the best Anti-Virus For Vista?
There isn't a single "best Anti-Virus" because people have different needs
and the different programs each work in different ways and hence fit those
different people.
AVAST is a fair free product.
F-Secure make a good antivirus product
NOD32 is pretty good, as is Kaspersky Antivirus.
But I'm sure people here have horror stories about each of those, and
different suggestions for what product you should use (and some halfwits
will even claim their preferred one is "the best")... and until you try a
few of the options and see which one fits you and your situation you'll
never be sure you've found the best one for you. Why not take a look at the
ones I suggest above while you wait for more suggestions?
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Spirit
Avast or AVG .... both have Free home versions and work well
with Vista. I prefer Avast.
http://www.avast.com/
http://free.grisoft.com/
with Vista. I prefer Avast.
http://www.avast.com/
http://free.grisoft.com/
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Ken Blake
What is the best Anti-Virus For Vista?
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Tom Porterfield
Doofy said:What is the best Anti-Virus For Vista?
Free version - Avast
Paid version - NOD32
Best overall - NOD32
Just my opinion having tried many as well as researched many more. My
experience is that proper configuration is they key and rarely is the
default configuration the best on most machines. For example, real-time
e-mail scanning can often cause problems with e-mail programs, is almost
never of any benefit, is redundant with real-time file system protection
and is mostly just a marketing gimmick. Yet it defaults to being
enabled in most AV applications.
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Tim
If you subscribe to internet access with either Verizon, Comcast, Or MSN,
you should get a Complementary subsription to McAfee, which is more and more
"vista capable" every day. It is a pretty reliable program, with the
occasional "This problem requires your imput" for something like a bad
update.
But all in all, it does keep goons off of your computer
If you do have one of these providers, check out the "security" tab
somewhere on the browser or the providers homepage.
Tim
you should get a Complementary subsription to McAfee, which is more and more
"vista capable" every day. It is a pretty reliable program, with the
occasional "This problem requires your imput" for something like a bad
update.
But all in all, it does keep goons off of your computer
If you do have one of these providers, check out the "security" tab
somewhere on the browser or the providers homepage.
Tim
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Tom Porterfield
Tim said:If you subscribe to internet access with either Verizon, Comcast, Or
MSN, you should get a Complementary subsription to McAfee, which is more
and more "vista capable" every day. It is a pretty reliable program,
with the occasional "This problem requires your imput" for something
like a bad update.
But all in all, it does keep goons off of your computer
If you do have one of these providers, check out the "security" tab
somewhere on the browser or the providers homepage.
McAfee is overly resource intensive and no better than more efficient
programs as far as detection reliability. They also have a less than
stellar record around causing other problems on the system due to
interference. As such, I don't recommend McAfee, even if free.
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Doofy
Thanx!
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Julian
Tim said:If you subscribe to internet access with either Verizon, Comcast, Or MSN,
you should get a Complementary subsription to McAfee, which is more and
more "vista capable" every day. It is a pretty reliable program, with the
occasional "This problem requires your imput" for something like a bad
update.
McAfee AV continues to screw Windows Mail.
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Leythos
What is the best Anti-Virus For Vista?
Symantec Corporate Edition 10.2 for workstations and servers, this is
the only workstation AV solution I trust at this time.
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Bill Yanaire
You want something like Symantec on your system? Symantec is a resource
hog, causing more problems than it's worth. Good luck.
hog, causing more problems than it's worth. Good luck.
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Yukon Jack
Carey Frisch said:Windows OneCare...you can try it FREE for 90 days!
http://onecare.live.com/standard/en-us/default.htm
Shill. That is not the best! Far from it. Kaspersky and Nod32 both rate
higher than Microsoft's One Care.
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Robert Moir
Yukon Jack said:Shill. That is not the best! Far from it. Kaspersky and Nod32 both rate
higher than Microsoft's One Care.
Yep. I don't think Carey has a single opinion that wasn't written in
Microsoft's marketing department :-(
I'd rather have no virus scanner than Microsoft Don't Care. At least you
won't be lulled into a false sense of security.
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Yukon Jack
Robert Moir said:But I'm sure people here have horror stories about each of those, and
different suggestions for what product you should use (and some halfwits
will even claim their preferred one is "the best")...
Well, obviously the one that detects the most virus's and has the least
false detections is the best. I use AVG on Vista and Avast on Win2K but that
is because I am a cheap bastage. From what I have read Kaspersky and Nod32
get the highest ratings.
If you want free though I prefer AVG as it is less resource hungry compared
to Avast. Avast has better protection modules but I find it slows down my
boot up time and my web browsing compared to AVG. Nod32 is designed with
gamers in mind so uses the least resources and is a very good scanning
engine too. Never used it yet but am going by my own research on Antivirus
progs. One thing I don't like are obtrusive AV progs, like Norton.
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Leythos
You want something like Symantec on your system? Symantec is a resource
hog, causing more problems than it's worth. Good luck.
Bill, forgive the way I'm going to put this, but you don't know much
about symantec. The Corporate versions are very low on resources, fast,
don't expire each year, and have good support.
For the Home/SOHO user version you are correct, Norton completely sucks,
but I specifically mentioned CORPORATE.
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Doofy said:What is the best Anti-Virus For Vista?
AVG. Make sure you get the latest version!
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Mr. Arnold
Leythos said:Symantec Corporate Edition 10.2 for workstations and servers, this is
the only workstation AV solution I trust at this time.
You know when I was using Norton back in 2001 it gave me nothing but trouble
on Win 2K, to the point I had to dump it and never looked back.
I have worked in companies that use the solution, and at least on the
development workstations that were Win 2K Pro and XP Pro, it runs, no
problems and I don't notice it.
Really, what is difference between a home version of Norton and a corporate
version Norton?
I like NOD32 myself and use that on all my home machines.
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Robert Moir
Really, what is difference between a home version of Norton and a
corporate version Norton?
Chalk and cheese. The home version is concerned with upselling you a new
version and making a noise to convince you its keeping you clean. The
corporate version is concerned with keeping you clean.
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