RC1 Antivirus

[Guest]

Has anyone done a clean fresh install of RC1 and found they have a working
antivirus solution which will scan incoming pop3 mail and also allow right
click access to scanning individual files ? Thanks.

Phil.

 

[Richard Hay]

Try Trend PC Cillin 14.56 - works great here on RC1:

https://www.trendbeta.com/index.php?get=80

 

[Hilmar]

free avg and trend micro beta worked on mine, they do scan emails. however,
trend micro will not get updates on my installation. this has been confirmed
by other users as well.

avg also scans emails, but it's not completely compatible and breaks out of
the vista gui when it does a system scan.
the other problem with avg is that even after uninstall (all dirs deleted
and program registry entries deleted), it shows up in the security center.

right now I am back to none. I tried McAfee, but their beta is even more
unstable. everytime it started a system scan it would halt and lock the
system after about scanning 100 files.

 

[Hilmar]

need to revise my previous post. I reinstalled Trend Micro. Now it is able
to download updates fine. I would say that this is the best package in
comparison. Only reason I haven't used it before was because of update
problems.

 

[Guest]

Trend working here also the only exemption from the criteria asked for in
first post still no right click to scan files. It is possible to scan files
manually but it does take longer than right click scan file.
Trend know this is something most of us miss but to date it's not there
e-mail scanning and working updates are fine.

 

[Guest]

Having AVG listed as working and up to date after it has been completely
uninstalled is a serious security problem and MS should issue a patch or fix
as soon as possible. Only way I can see to fix the problem is a reinstall at
this point. I also lost many of the notification tray items at the same
time. There is no arrow and things that should be there are not.

 

[MrVee]

I got a copy of Avast Home version. (free) Just released on the 8th of
September. I've used Avast for years and it works just fine. Finally they
have a version that works with RC1. Here is a link if you want to try it.
http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=23424

-MrVee

 

[Jeff]

SWEEETT,
Knew they were workin on it.
Thanks,

Jeff

 

[Guest]

I have to put up a warning about Trend Vista beta.

I have installed it twice on two new machines. They both seemed to work
fine, but after uninstalling, the Security center still claimed that they
were installed and functioning. a HUGE miss in my opinion. Many colleauges of
mine have the same issue, and they had even more problems removing the
software.

I've been running an inofficial version of Symantec antivirus, and it seems
a lot more polite towards Vista. That's the way we are going.