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Old 09-06-2006, 01:16 PM   #1 (permalink)
Default Free Antivirus for Vista RC1?

Anyone know of a free 64 bit antivirus program besides the 'Trend Micro' for
Vista RC1? I've installed it so many times while installing and uninstalling
Vista I probably won't be allowed to download it. AVG Free doesn't support
64 bit. Thanks.

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Old 09-06-2006, 01:38 PM   #2 (permalink)
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In article <egv39ab0GHA.3476@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl>, Delta Dan says...
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> Anyone know of a free 64 bit antivirus program besides the 'Trend Micro' for
> Vista RC1? I've installed it so many times while installing and uninstalling
> Vista I probably won't be allowed to download it. AVG Free doesn't support
> 64 bit. Thanks.
>
>
Just tried Trend Micro on RC1 and it brought the system to it's knees
and this is on a X2 3500 with 2GB RAM and it was still hitting 100%
CPU.

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Old 09-06-2006, 11:12 PM   #3 (permalink)
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This is the one i always use. So far it works great:
http://www.avast.com/eng/avast-antiv...ows-vista.html

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> In article <egv39ab0GHA.3476@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl>, Delta Dan says...
Quote:
> > Anyone know of a free 64 bit antivirus program besides the 'Trend Micro' for
> > Vista RC1? I've installed it so many times while installing and uninstalling
> > Vista I probably won't be allowed to download it. AVG Free doesn't support
> > 64 bit. Thanks.
> >
> >
> Just tried Trend Micro on RC1 and it brought the system to it's knees
> and this is on a X2 3500 with 2GB RAM and it was still hitting 100%
> CPU.
>
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> Conor
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> How about taking the safety labels off everything, and let the
> stupidity-problem solve itself?
>
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Old 09-07-2006, 12:14 AM   #4 (permalink)
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Avast 4.7 Home works great on x64 Vista RC1. Although it won't work on x86
RC1. Go figure.

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> This is the one i always use. So far it works great:
> http://www.avast.com/eng/avast-antiv...ows-vista.html
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> "Conor" wrote:
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>> In article <egv39ab0GHA.3476@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl>, Delta Dan says...
Quote:
>> > Anyone know of a free 64 bit antivirus program besides the 'Trend
>> > Micro' for
>> > Vista RC1? I've installed it so many times while installing and
>> > uninstalling
>> > Vista I probably won't be allowed to download it. AVG Free doesn't
>> > support
>> > 64 bit. Thanks.
>> >
>> >
>> Just tried Trend Micro on RC1 and it brought the system to it's knees
>> and this is on a X2 3500 with 2GB RAM and it was still hitting 100%
>> CPU.
>>
>> --
>> Conor
>>
>> How about taking the safety labels off everything, and let the
>> stupidity-problem solve itself?
>>
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Old 09-07-2006, 03:00 AM   #5 (permalink)
Default Re: Free Antivirus for Vista RC1?

Ive been using Trend Micro's PC-cillin Internet Securit 14 beta for
Vista and all i can say is that you wont even notice its running,
atm its using like 10 MB of ram, and when it runs its not hogging
the down the system at all

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1GB, 667MHz, DDR2 SDRAM Memory, ECC
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Old 09-07-2006, 01:46 PM   #6 (permalink)
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Thanks for the replies. I installed Avast and it seems to be working.


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> for Vista RC1? I've installed it so many times while installing and
> uninstalling Vista I probably won't be allowed to download it. AVG Free
> doesn't support 64 bit. Thanks.

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