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

Posted: 08-29-2006, 07:31 PM

Kai-Uwe v. d. Ohe

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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

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Roy Coorne

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

Posted: 08-30-2006, 02:11 AM

Kai-Uwe v. d. Ohe schrieb:

> 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

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

Posted: 08-30-2006, 01:41 PM

[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

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

Posted: 08-30-2006, 02:02 PM

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

"Kai-Uwe v. d. Ohe" wrote:

> [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

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

Posted: 08-30-2006, 03:13 PM

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

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

Posted: 08-30-2006, 08:50 PM

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

"Jo" <Jo@discussions.microsoft.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:7DE7D72E-AEEE-422C-BF89-E910F8787D72@microsoft.com...

> 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
>
> "Kai-Uwe v. d. Ohe" wrote:
>
>> [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

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

Posted: 08-30-2006, 08:53 PM

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

"Jo" <Jo@discussions.microsoft.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:7DE7D72E-AEEE-422C-BF89-E910F8787D72@microsoft.com...

> 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
>

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