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Antivirus for vista
Name: gargca (by Gaurav Arora) Date: February 25, 2008 at 06:00:16 Pacific OS: Windows Vista CPU/Ram: T5300,4GB Product: Toshiba
Comment:
Which is the best freeware antivirus for vista home premium. I dont want to use norton as it makes the system slow? AVG doesnt allow to run its resident shield !! Thanks
Also, try reinstalling AVG. If it still does not work, please post back.
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Response Number 2
Name: btk1w1 Date: February 25, 2008 at 10:47:02 Pacific
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I use Avast antivirus (free for home users) on my Vista pc, the real-time protection works well. I also use the Avast screensaver for a virus scanner whenever I'm not at my computer.
www.avast.com
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Response Number 3
Name: Cobra_R Date: February 25, 2008 at 16:06:09 Pacific
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AVG 8.0 is around the corner and it's suppose to be rock solid.
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Response Number 4
Name: Sabertooth Date: February 25, 2008 at 20:17:32 Pacific
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I use Avast on the Vista (x64) side of this machine too & it works great -- no issues.
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Response Number 5
Name: zorki1c Date: March 17, 2008 at 08:40:46 Pacific
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I'm running AVG 7.5 with firewall and it works fine although scanning incoming and outgoing email and certifying it took some special adjustments.
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