whats a good antivirus thats vista home premium compatible?

I installed avast home edition today and went to start it up an it shut down my laptop and had to system restore. So wondering if there is a good anti virus that works with vista 32 bit

 

Avira & AVG are good.

 

avast! works. You probably just did something wrong.

 

well i downloaded from their site and run installer and it finished installing. i the double clicked on icon and it come up with do you want to continue box so i said continue and then laptop just shut down. i then started and had to system restore.

 

CA has a free 1 year subscription of its security suite that works well with Vista.

 

I second AVG... I've been using it for over 2 years now without problems.

A good paid antivirus software would be Kaspersky.

 

I've had good success with Avira. Google it. Not bad for free software.

Regards,
Paolo

 

I ran avast! free from June until December this year on Vista Home Premium without problems.

 

I've run avast! since I have had my computer with no problems; it has even caught some stuff before it infected my system. This is a great AV in my opinion.

 

I agree, something probably went wrong during the installation, as I am using Avast! right now with no problems.

 

NO, no!!! I wouldn't touch CA with a ten foot pole. I installed that thing once on my XP and it failed to uninstall properly. Contacted tech support and redirected me to a help page on their website that didn't help. Further contact was ignored. I had to do a whole reinstallation of XP.

 

avira hands down for detection an if you want something that does not slow down the system one bit i have tested EVERYTHING OUT THERE nod and avira are the only two that offer this. i use avira.

i can tell you where to get a one year free lic to bitdefender 2008 if you would like to try that its a pretty nice program, avira has a 3 months trial period also.


kaspersky is also great but WILL slowdown the system on you..

 

Avast Free Home Edition - http://www.avast.com/eng/avast_4_home.html

Just the best one, simple as that

 

http://babelfish.altavista.com/babe...ware.ru/index.phtml?part=tests&test=proactive

 

Avira gets my vote. Awesome anti-virus program.

 

Avira is good, but a nag screen comes up everytime I update wanting me to buy their pro version or whatever. Other than that, it's excellent.

 

Thats 1 window that pops up. One button to press to get rid of it. I cant believe some people get so annoyed from it. It's FREE!

 

I know, but that 1 window drives me nuts! There are other free antivirus software that do not have ads pop up.

 

Well, its either poor detection rates, and no pop-up; or high detection rates and a pop-up. Personally, i'd stick with the high detection rates and the pop-up; i'd rather keep my PC intact.

 

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I'll put in my vote for avast. It has some nice modules for specific types of internet use, web mail, p2p,... I also use Zone Alarms free for my firewall. It is ok and has been less buggy than Commodo or others. It has been the best with my programs, as some of the others do not play nicely with some types of connections I want to enable/disable.

 

well i'm trying avast and comando for know and will see. must of had install go wrong with avast first time as it working know

 

Kaspersky AV

 

Avira Antivir ftw. very nice and light and I don't mind the occasional pop-up at all.

 

Using NIS 08 here -let the bashing begins-

I used avast while in Vista x64 Beta (was the only one working and avast was working with M$) and it was working fine. Vista x64 virus/trojan were pretty rare, if not inexistant so I couldn't test it though

 

nis2008 is not at all bad. its MUCH BETER than the last few versions excluding 2007 that was also pretty nice..i cant bash it..

imo way better options out there but nothing wrong with nis2008

 

I think you should get Nod32. Vista compatible and catches everything! You feel secure with it

And not so heavy on resources

 

My vote goes for NOD32 too.I use it for more than a year and I'm very happy with it.
You can find it here: http://www.eset.com/download/download_NT.php

 

i used to be a huge nod fan and user.. i tried avira and kis7 out and kis7 found 5 actual files that were not fp's and was able to delete them these were completly overlooked by nod. also i have found that nod at times does not do as well for cleaning. i like nod still but imo its def not all everyone raves about. i am not the only person i know that has had this experience with another av finding stuff it missed.

the one bad thing about avira i have to admit is it normally will flag a lot of fp's more so than many others.

im trying kis7 right now and i like it. we'll see after some more time with it though.

 

I'm back to running avast! Home Edition on Vista Home Premium.