AV-software for Pre-RC1 (5536) - AVG!

[Kai-Uwe v. d. Ohe]

After installing 5536 it would refuse the installation of:

- Kaspersky (v6)

- BitDefender (v8)

- AntiVir (v7)

- Avast (v?, but pretty recent)

The only program that would install without warning about
compatibility issues was AVG from:

http://www.grisoft.com/


It installed, updated itself and apparently runs fine. I just
wanted to share this finding with those still hunting for an
AV-software for 5536.

To my surprise even Avast wouldn't run properly. Though
I ws able tp install it, on the next boot Vista came up with
the message that a driver was disabled - which turned out
to be related to Avast, thus preventing it from starting. While
Avast was the AV-software of choice for Beta 2 this appa-
rently is not true for 5536.

Regards,

Kai-Uwe

 

[Roy Coorne]

After installing 5536 it would refuse the installation of:

- Kaspersky (v6)

- BitDefender (v8)

- AntiVir (v7)

- Avast (v?, but pretty recent)

The only program that would install without warning about
compatibility issues was AVG from:

http://www.grisoft.com/


It installed, updated itself and apparently runs fine. I just
wanted to share this finding with those still hunting for an
AV-software for 5536.

To my surprise even Avast wouldn't run properly. Though
I ws able tp install it, on the next boot Vista came up with
the message that a driver was disabled - which turned out
to be related to Avast, thus preventing it from starting. While
Avast was the AV-software of choice for Beta 2 this appa-
rently is not true for 5536.

Regards,

Kai-Uwe

You are right: avast! 4.7 doesn't run on Vista Pre-RC1 (b. 5536).
This fact is reported by Vista during installation (while checking the
system); no update possible.

THX for the hint towards AVG - will try it.

Roy

 

[Kai-Uwe v. d. Ohe]

[snip]

You are right: avast! 4.7 doesn't run on Vista Pre-RC1 (b. 5536).
This fact is reported by Vista during installation (while checking the
system); no update possible.

That makes sense. I did a clean install anyway (though it
was initiated under XP) to another partition.

THX for the hint towards AVG - will try it.

Roy

I saw several postings regarding problems with AV-
software and was quite happy to find something
that seems to work.

Kai-Uwe

 

[Guest]

Have you had any subsequent problems with AVG? I installed it after seeing
your suggestion and it seemed to install ok, but now when the computer boots
I get a warning message--"can't initialize AVG antivirus interface". The
icon does not appear in the tray, but if I manually start the interface, AVG
states everything is working and usually after closing, the icon is then
shown in the tray. Do you have this problem? Thanks

[snip]

You are right: avast! 4.7 doesn't run on Vista Pre-RC1 (b. 5536).
This fact is reported by Vista during installation (while checking the
system); no update possible.

That makes sense. I did a clean install anyway (though it
was initiated under XP) to another partition.

THX for the hint towards AVG - will try it.

Roy

I saw several postings regarding problems with AV-
software and was quite happy to find something
that seems to work.

Kai-Uwe

 

[Roy Coorne]

Jo reported:

Have you had any subsequent problems with AVG? I installed it after seeing
your suggestion and it seemed to install ok, but now when the computer boots
I get a warning message--"can't initialize AVG antivirus interface". The
icon does not appear in the tray, but if I manually start the interface, AVG
states everything is working and usually after closing, the icon is then
shown in the tray. Do you have this problem? Thanks

No. I installed AVG Free Edition 7.1.405 (8/17/2006) on b. 5536 and
got no warning message.

Roy

 

[Kai-Uwe v. d. Ohe]

No problems so far, still runs fine. Maybe it conflicts with
some other software you may have installed? So far, at
this early stage where I mainly want to test for hardware
compatibility (trying to hibernate gives me a BSOD, btw),
I have installed just fery few apps that apparently don't
interfere with AVG. After having nothing but trouble with
other AV-software, it seemed that AVG is "it" since it
ran/runs perfectly, AFAICT.

Regards,

Kai-Uwe

Have you had any subsequent problems with AVG? I installed it after
seeing
your suggestion and it seemed to install ok, but now when the computer
boots
I get a warning message--"can't initialize AVG antivirus interface". The
icon does not appear in the tray, but if I manually start the interface,
AVG
states everything is working and usually after closing, the icon is then
shown in the tray. Do you have this problem? Thanks

[snip]

You are right: avast! 4.7 doesn't run on Vista Pre-RC1 (b. 5536).
This fact is reported by Vista during installation (while checking the
system); no update possible.

That makes sense. I did a clean install anyway (though it
was initiated under XP) to another partition.

THX for the hint towards AVG - will try it.

Roy

I saw several postings regarding problems with AV-
software and was quite happy to find something
that seems to work.

Kai-Uwe

 

[Kai-Uwe v. d. Ohe]

I forgot to mention that another person said he was
happy with Trend Micro PC-cillin Beta. Have you
already tried that?