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Old October 15th 06, 11:02 AM posted to microsoft.public.windows.vista.security
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Default Antivirus Programs

Does anyone know any other good antivirus and firewall programs for windows
vista except for Windows Oncare Beta 1.5?
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Old October 15th 06, 11:19 AM posted to microsoft.public.windows.vista.security
intclass
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Default Antivirus Programs

Avast (Alwil Software) is a great AV, and the default Vista firewall is more
than fine.

"Download Help" wrote:

Does anyone know any other good antivirus and firewall programs for windows
vista except for Windows Oncare Beta 1.5?

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Old October 15th 06, 08:06 PM posted to microsoft.public.windows.vista.security
Yagiï¼ Saipan
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I use on Vista RC2 v5744.

* Norton Internet Security 2007 for Vista ET2 build 9 x86
https://et.symantec.com/home.html

* PC-cillin Internet Security 14.56 x64
https://www.trendbeta.com/index.php?get=80
http://www.trendmicro.co.jp/vb2006/e...a/trial-dl.asp
(This is English Ver.)
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Does anyone know any other good antivirus and firewall programs for windows
vista except for Windows Oncare Beta 1.5?

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Old October 15th 06, 10:30 PM posted to microsoft.public.windows.vista.security
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Avast Home Edition and Trend Micro PC-cillin have both been fine. Currently
using McAfee Viruscan 11 - no problem.

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Does anyone know any other good antivirus and firewall programs for
windows
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Old October 16th 06, 08:53 AM posted to microsoft.public.windows.vista.security
Ken
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CA security centre good anti virus so far pc-cillan let in trojans

"Download Help" wrote:

Does anyone know any other good antivirus and firewall programs for windows
vista except for Windows Oncare Beta 1.5?

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Old October 16th 06, 03:08 PM posted to microsoft.public.windows.vista.security
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PC Cillin is good and also Avast. As for a firewall, Vista's own firewall is
worth using. Zone Alarm, currently, doesn't support Vista.

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Old October 17th 06, 01:18 AM posted to microsoft.public.windows.vista.security
Hugh Jass
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I was lucky enough to get in on the Norton Antivirus Beta program. I really
like how this new internet suite runs.


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PC Cillin is good and also Avast. As for a firewall, Vista's own firewall
is worth using. Zone Alarm, currently, doesn't support Vista.

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Old October 17th 06, 02:13 PM posted to microsoft.public.windows.vista.security
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I gave up on Norton software years ago. It's a resource hogger and i always
found it caused more problems than it solved.

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"Hugh Jass" wrote in message
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I was lucky enough to get in on the Norton Antivirus Beta program. I really
like how this new internet suite runs.


"John Barnett MVP" wrote in message
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PC Cillin is good and also Avast. As for a firewall, Vista's own firewall
is worth using. Zone Alarm, currently, doesn't support Vista.

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Does anyone know any other good antivirus and firewall programs for
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Old October 17th 06, 04:12 PM posted to microsoft.public.windows.vista.security
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I tried Norton's IS 2007 beta with Vista B2 and it kinda worked ok. Then I
up'd to RC1 and had nothing but problems. I let Norton's know and got back
email saying they were having major problems with RC1. I now have RC2, but
haven't tried to use Norton's again. I'm using the beta Avast 4.7 Pro and
am very happy. I also used Trend-Micro and it worked ok, but had it some
annoying habits.

Kirk

"Hugh Jass" wrote in message
.. .
I was lucky enough to get in on the Norton Antivirus Beta program. I really
like how this new internet suite runs.


"John Barnett MVP" wrote in message
...
PC Cillin is good and also Avast. As for a firewall, Vista's own firewall
is worth using. Zone Alarm, currently, doesn't support Vista.

--
John Barnett MVP
Associate Expert
http://xphelpandsupport.mvps.org
http://vistasupport.mvps.org

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"Download Help" wrote in message
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Does anyone know any other good antivirus and firewall programs for
windows
vista except for Windows Oncare Beta 1.5?





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Old October 18th 06, 06:54 AM posted to microsoft.public.windows.vista.security
Gene Fitz
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Default Antivirus Programs

I have used Trend, Avast, And Windows Live One Care on my machine.
I try to stay away from Norton, because as John said, it really is a
resource hog, and quite frankly the firewall is WAY too dumb. (Common sense
isn't added into the system, where as programs like McAfee know one program
from the next and will auto accept a program depennding on it's signature.)
I tried trend, but for some reason, the firewall was so restrictive, it made
simply surfing the net difficult (Wondered about resource hogging as well)

I was thoroughly impressed with AVAST!. It works well, doesn't eat up too
much space, the web runs clean, and you can break it down by only using the
Vista direwall, which seems to work quite well.

I was impressed with One Care as well. It was simple, it wasn't restrictive,
never had any issues with it, and most of all, being made by Microsoft, I
knew it would be the most efficient program running on windows. The only
issue will be after the beta mode is done when you have to pay for it, which
if I remember is like 50 a year or something. Not saying it isn't worth it
though..

Hope this helps..


"Download Help" wrote:

Does anyone know any other good antivirus and firewall programs for windows
vista except for Windows Oncare Beta 1.5?

 




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