AntiVirus for Vista Vista Addons and Applications Discuss AntiVirus for Vista in the Windows Vista forums; I have Vista Beta 2 installed and current. I installed EZ Antivirus and all seems to be working well. Anyone using anything besides that?...

[sen428]

I have Vista Beta 2 installed and current. I installed EZ Antivirus and all seems to be working well. Anyone using anything besides that?

[ninikins]

Avast 4.6 seems to be working ok so far. I'd be curious to see what other people are trying...

[W.Harbaugh]

Avast from what i've heard covers the most vista viruses...is M$ going to have AV built into vista?

[triumph]

Originally Posted by W.Harbaugh

Avast from what i've heard covers the most vista viruses...is M$ going to have AV built into vista?

I would like to know this too. I just did a quick search and could not find any information about any standard or built-in virus protection for Windows.

I suspect it is because the support costs on keeping those programs upgraded are too expensive for Microsoft to include as part of the package.

[sopaman]

It looks like MS will stop short of incorporating full AV facilities into Vista - reading about the "Windows Defender" application that will be included, it covers spyware, unwanted pop-ups, etc - I suppose all the stuff that doesn't need very intensive support (compared to AV).

Me, I will be happy as long as my favourite AV system supports Vista (AVG Anti-Virus). That way it won't cost me a penny anyway

Mind you, I can imagine some slightly misleading advertising suggesting that the built in software protects you from all known evils....

[sen428]

Originally Posted by sopaman

It looks like MS will stop short of incorporating full AV facilities into Vista - reading about the "Windows Defender" application that will be included, it covers spyware, unwanted pop-ups, etc - I suppose all the stuff that doesn't need very intensive support (compared to AV).

Me, I will be happy as long as my favourite AV system supports Vista (AVG Anti-Virus). That way it won't cost me a penny anyway

Mind you, I can imagine some slightly misleading advertising suggesting that the built in software protects you from all known evils....

I know that the alerts are still there if you don't have AV installed. Same as XP Pro.

[sopaman]

Originally Posted by sen428

I know that the alerts are still there if you don't have AV installed. Same as XP Pro.

That is a positive thing, anyway. As a rule of thumb things like that need to be more difficult to ignore than to act on, I think. That way "normal" users might do something about them...

[ninikins]

I completely dislike windows defender on XP so I wonder what the virus/safety defender stuff on Vista will be like, how will it work..will it take ages and will I get the same random messages and interference again?

[jgmelott]

I have Trend Micro loaded, but have not been able to update the engine.

Anyone else using Trend?

[ninikins]

not at the moment but I'm planning to..I used to use Trend Micro very often and will install it again to use it on a regular basis I hope it won't cause any problems.