Vista

Vista

• Esposito

  silly1 wrote:

  I have just become a member of Technet plus. I have installed Vista beta on my puter. I keep having this Windows Security pop-up everytime my anti-virus hiccups. Is there a way to stop this It is the pop-up to accept or deny permission for my anti-virus to run.

  
  
  

• Anonymous888888888kjhkiy098er6e5

  "Stable" in this sense doesn't mean that Avast is doing all of what an anti-virus should do. All that means is that it isn't blowing up.

  Nope, we need a full anti-virus that is purposely supported under Vista.

  So far, Symantec has been quiet.

  Microsoft itself has been quiet - unfortunately (makes me wonder what they are running on all thos enicew new M400s internally).

  McAfee is starting their beta in a few weeks.

  
  

• Wojciech Krzy?ak

  What anti-virus software are you running

  
  

• ivycress

  pless.
  
  

• frank chen

  I agree with user001 we need some kind of protection! If we can't us norton tell us what will work on Vista

  Pam

  
  

• hawaiian dude

  Avast Pro 4.6 stable under Vista 5308
  
  
  

• m2s2

  Well active protection is better then running on the internet buck nakid to with nothing more than Defender running. I tried going to known sites that install trojans and other nasty spyware and Avast stopped all. Am I 100% comfortable...no. It clearly is not Norton (I hate McCrappy) But it affords me some kind of protection. And to really test the OS, the best way is through everyday use, on and off the internet. I WILL not test anything OS without some kind of interent protection. Not even MacOS.

  I am gathering a list of the software installed on my test machines and the hardware specs to publish on here. Of course it is only 2 machines, but someone out there might want to know about a piece of software and how it plays with Vista 5308.

  So to answer the question, Avast is stable and active. All default features are on and running.

  
  
  

• Hugh Tester

  Unfortuntely the answer isn't that simple...
  
  I installed Vista 5308 a couple of days ago and stuck Avast 4.6 on there straight away, as the version history mentioned that some work was done a couple of versions back to address compatibility issues with some of the Vista betas. However, with Avast installed my system would last for around 30 seconds after logon (after taking an age to logon), then several apps (Microsoft Mail, Internet Explorer, Add/Remove Programs, Task Manager, etc) would become unresponsive, and basically never came back to life. After removing Avast the system was fine.
  
  There are certainly people out there successfully using Avast with build 5308, and there are reports of people having similar issues to myself. Guess I must just be unlucky :-(
  
  cheers
  v.f.
  
  
  
  

• vivekWaghmare

  Same dead application issue here.. except I wasn't able to launch the uninstaller either because it would die.

  And thanks to my naive trusting of that kid who claimed it was all fine, my system was hosed and the only way to clean up up completely was to re-install form scratch. So if you've invested some time building your Vista test system, you'll loose it all.

  So, Avast kills the system. Unless you just want it to sit there and look pretty.

  Over at the OneCare blog, they've said there wil be OneCare anti-virus for Vista. And nothing else was detailed: not when, how, beta - nothing.

  So, Microsoft, you need to you to ENABLE us beta testers so that we can actually drive the system while it's connected to a network. We can't do that without an anti-virus. We know you've got one internally up in Redmond - what is it

  
  

• xavierkdna

  I managed to get to the uninstaller when I logged in using the local Administrator account, rather than the domain account I was using to test. Using that domain account the Add/Remove Programs applet would just hang.

  cheers

  v.f.

  
  
  

• RonaldLaeremans

  Didn't know there was any anti-virus for Vista... yet....

  I know McAfee is going into beta in a month or so...

  
  
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