AV for Win '7 (64 bit) laptop

[Eugene F.]

Our new home DELL laptop came with Windows 7 (64 bit) and McAfee.
While I'm OK with Norton 2009 and 2010, I'd rather avoid McAfee at
this point.

Which anti-virus tool is most robust and problem-free in Win '7 64-bit
environment? It does not have to be free. I'm OK with paying
reasonable subscription for trouble-free product that is kept up-to-
date.

TIA, Eugene

 

[Erik Vastmasd]

Our new home DELL laptop came with Windows 7 (64 bit) and McAfee.
While I'm OK with Norton 2009 and 2010, I'd rather avoid McAfee at
this point.

Which anti-virus tool is most robust and problem-free in Win '7 64-bit
environment? It does not have to be free. I'm OK with paying
reasonable subscription for trouble-free product that is kept up-to-
date.

I use "ESET Smart Security 4" which is both anti-virus & firewall.
It updates automatically at startup and when updates are available
during the day.

If you are happy with Norton you could purchase just the NOD32
anti-virus. Read about it here: http://www.eset.com/

 

[The Central Scrutinizer]

Our new home DELL laptop came with Windows 7 (64 bit) and McAfee.
While I'm OK with Norton 2009 and 2010, I'd rather avoid McAfee at
this point.

Which anti-virus tool is most robust and problem-free in Win '7 64-bit
environment? It does not have to be free. I'm OK with paying
reasonable subscription for trouble-free product that is kept up-to-
date.

Anything wrong with MS Security Essentials?

 

[Beauregard T. Shagnasty]

Anything wrong with MS Security Essentials?

Begs the question, would you trust the company that builds the insecure
operating system to build a solution for it which was any better?

Jus' sayin'...

 

[PvdG42]

Anything wrong with MS Security Essentials?

Not here, IME.
Throwing caution to the wind after installing Win 7 U x64 on my laptop, I
decided to not use the AV and anti-malware tools I use on my desktops in
favor of MS Security essentials. I figured the worst case would be having to
wipe the drive and start over after some failure and/or infection (I'm well
backed up on my network).

Result after 3 months of regular use: no issues encountered. Just as good as
anything I've used in the past, and less trouble.

 

[Leythos]

Which anti-virus tool is most robust and problem-free in Win '7 64-bit
environment? It does not have to be free. I'm OK with paying
reasonable subscription for trouble-free product that is kept up-to-
date.

Using Avira on my W7U x64 machines without any issues - actually watched
it catch drive-by attacks from websites, something you won't see from
MSE.

 

[The Real Truth MVP]

Yes you will you dumb idiot. But then you don't use it so you would not
know, instead you posts lies.


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[Eugene F.]

Anything wrong with MS Security Essentials?

Is it something that is already included with Win 7 or do I need to
get it separately?

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[Beauregard T. Shagnasty]

.. instead you posts lies.

Well, there's a pot/kettle/black statement if there ever was one!

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[Dustin Cook]

Well, there's a pot/kettle/black statement if there ever was one!

I like your new signature.

 

[Beauregard T. Shagnasty]

I like your new signature.

It only gets used once in a while... ahh, the beauty of having a
newsreader with instant, selectable sigs!

 

[Eugene F.]

Re: MS Security Essentials

Is there a clean un-install path if I, for whatever reason, decide to
remove Essentials?

One of the problems I had with Norton products in the past was a super-
convoluted way of uninstalling.

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[Tommy McClure]

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It only gets used once in a while... ahh, the beauty of having a
newsreader with instant, selectable sigs!

how do you change to a different news server in 40tude?


tommy

 

[Beauregard T. Shagnasty]

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It only gets used once in a while... ahh, the beauty of having a
newsreader with instant, selectable sigs!

how do you change to a different news server in 40tude?

You don't have to. Dialog will handle multiple servers with ease. At the
same time. Just go to Settings > Servers, Identities, Signatures and
select Servers from the list. Add what you need. You are not restricted
to accessing just one at a time. I have ~40ish groups from four servers
all in one list in the group pane.

Then of course you would need to go get the list of groups for each new
one, at Online > Get complete grouplists

Arrange groups at your pleasure by highlight one or more, then moving up
and down with Alt+arrowkeys

 

[FromTheRafters]

All along through the years (the past decade actually now) Norton has
had some of the top virus detetction and cleaning test scores and
still
does having just won the Best of 2009 Gold Award from av-comparitives

Spelling alert!!! A misspelled word was detected on line three.

I *was* going to commend you for not spewing that whole "Gold Award"
thing in your reply - but that was all spoiled by my scrolling down the
page. Anyway, I figured you would want to know (in case this is a cut
and paste spew - it *does* look familiar).

 

[Dustin Cook]

I have installed / uninstalled MSEE on several pc's with no trouble.

Yes in the not so distant past Norton had instal and uninstall issues
along with poor resource management too. However the 2009 / 2010 line
of Norton swecurity products has entirely resolved that matter and I
have seen this myself last year and this year as well. Norton 2010 AV
installs in under 1 minute and requires no reboot.

I'm just picking at you Charlie, but I'm certain it wouldn't install in
one minute or even 2 minutes on the machine I'm posting from.
Performance depends heavily on the host as well.

 

[Dustin Cook]

It only gets used once in a while... ahh, the beauty of having a
newsreader with instant, selectable sigs!

Bah. Nothing I can't duplicate with a little programming. <G>

 

[Dustin Cook]

Ofcourse. They do advertise that time though and it has always done so
for me

Well, in fairness to them; they would be using an uptodate hardware wise
computer. Atleast, uptodate in so far as less than 10 years old.