Virus Scan Support For Vista Beta 2

[Guest]

Are there currently any virus scanner downloads avialable that support Vista
Beta 2? And if so how do I get it?

 

[Jane C]

Avast! 4.7 Home Edition is free and Vista compatible. You need to register
to obtain a serial number though.

http://www.avast.com

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

A search of this newsgroup on "antivirus" will give you a ton of
information.

 

[NeoDude0]

Like I noted in another thread - avast! and other programs seem to be
flagged by Vista as slowdowns. Careful if you take all of the suggestions
to improve performance to heart.

 

[Guest]

Thanks you guys i did eventually find the other posts!

 

[limeybiker]

http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/viruses/wsc/en-us/windowsvistabeta2.mspx



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[Peter M]

You do realize any "real time monitoring" AV is going to do that since any
AV worth it's salt will scan opening files on startup and closing files on
shutdown to catch stealth/polymorphic viruses. In both your posts you seem
to imply running Avast is not good just because Vista flags them as
"slowdowns" which I find a tad irresponsible. The performance hit is minor
to say the least (oh the noes, if i dump avast my shutdown time is 3 seconds
faster... what a resource pig!).

 

[Guest]

Trend PC-cillin is available till october 2007 for Vista, includes a firewall
and virus. I found it on the vista website recommended.

Billy

 

[Lucas Williams]

Does anyone know if it will still be supported after October?

 

[Jeff]

Hi,
Trend is only till October; but;
AVAST is good till next June; and it's for Vista!!!!!
look at the middle of this page for the FREE home version for Vista
www.avast.com

No firewall;but Vista's is way improved over xp.
Been running AVAST since beta 2 released;and no problems;and especially; NO
VIRUSES or anything bad!!!

Jeff