Vista Virus Protection- What are you using?

Just got a new computer with Windows Vista. What virus/spyware software are you running with it. Is Windows Live One Care any good.

NOD32 and Windows Defender
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AVG Free
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Al
Blackwood, Wales, UK

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NOD is good..but no reason to pay for it...when you have AVG and Avast out there...........

I dumped my subscription to NOD> .....it is good...and fast..but not cheap for ist time buyers
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Kaspersky internet suite and Spy Sweeper.

David

I'm surprised Vista doesn't have anything included. Or would that be admitting to supplying software with security holes in it?

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Mike

When MS starts including stuff with Windows they get into anti-trust trouble.

Mike Weber said:

I'm surprised Vista doesn't have anything included. Or would that
be admitting to supplying software with security holes in it?

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Mike

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Avast1 free and it works
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Symantec Antivirus Corporate 10.2

and I love it!

Right now I'm using the Live OneCare that came with Vista (90 days free). After the 90 days I'll make a decision whether to keep it or not. By then there ought to be more Vista capable Virus programs out there.

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Radu
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have been using trendmicro 2007 security suite for about 6 months, very satisfied. one nice item, it updates itself completely without any manual intervention. both definitions and program. norton does not do this: definitions are automatic but you have to due the program and anything else manually. trend micro is automatic completely. the trend antispam seems to work much better than norton. trend recently sent me a free update to vista 2007, very nice, no problem installing.

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Dirk

My GF just got hooked to the internet and I put Avast! and Ad-ware on it for her. Both are free and quite good, but Ad-ware isn't realtime checking (you have to run it manually every so often). Of the free ones, Avast! is great.

On my new vista machine (and carried over from my old XP machine) I use BitDefender. No problems and seems to work quite well. They even provided a new Vista version for free.

Before BitDefender I had PC-cillin. Loved it- at first. But after several months my machine kept getting slower and slower. Did all the usual stuff (defrag, registry clean, etc) but no luck. Testing to see what could be causing the slowdown I turned off PC-cillin and it flew like it was new. Nuff said. That's why I got BitDefender and so far no slowdowns.

FYI, if you have an XP machine, I highly recommend getting CCleaner. Lets you keep the cookies you want, and deletes the rest, plus cleaning up all the extra junk, and it's registry cleaner is quite good (but not great). WARNING: The latest version says it's good for Vista, but it's not (don't ask!). They update CCleaner all the time, so I'll wait a few more versions before putting it back on my vista machine (I really miss that little program!)