a vista AV or security suite

Discussion in 'other anti-virus software' started by larryb52, Sep 21, 2007.

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  1. larryb52

    larryb52 Registered Member

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    I have been trying in different AV's & or security suites on my bew Vista machine & I'm not trying to compare AV's but compare HOW THEY RUN on vista. SO far I have tried Kis, Nod, F-Secure, Norton, AVG, KAV, except for a few they all have a few common problems & I'd like to see how people feel about AV's & vista. Here what I have found, slow boot ups. Is this AV or OS?, slug down on system resposne (this is AV) & some memory hogs. Before I run out & spend more money (more grief from spouse) on memory I want to know what other people feel. BTW I'm running on 1 gig & run a tweak vista program which frees up memory....
     
  2. WSFuser

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    For me, AVs and suites dont (seem to) run differently on Vista than XP. The Kaspersky icon seems slow to appear in the systray but thats it.
     
  3. DevilFrank

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    I have Avast running here (Ultimate64). The scanner is 15MB of RAM using.
    I think that´s the best choice at the moment.
     
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    At first my feeling was that the av & suites where much slower on Vista. But you see that the vendors are changing to a more Vista compatible product. And this pays. My KIS is much smoother now
     
  5. shanebot

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    I was a firm supporter of ZoneAlarm Internet Security Suite until I bought a vista machine. ZoneAlarm runs slow even on my new computer with 2 gigs of RAM and it constantly started subtracting 5 sometimes 6 days from my remaining subscription each time I rebooted and all their customer service people kept telling me was I had to "reinstall for the license information to reset". I did that several times and nothing worked. I just said heck with it and started trying out various Suites on Vista. And to my surprise the new Norton Internet Security Suite 2008 was light on resources and had a few "extras" that I was really impressed with. It's kind of funny that I left Norton back in 2003 because it was bloated and slow as crap but the 2008 product is great and extremely fast. I did a little more research on Norton Internet Security 2008 and seen that they had completely rewritten the program from the ground up for 2008. And it shows...Awesome product. I went to download.com and downloaded the trial version which is good for 15 days. I tried 4 suites and it was the best hands down.
     
  6. Ngwana

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    As for Vista 32 bit, it seems the products you tested work reasonably fine. It is a different story for Vista 64-bit. Most vendors have no compatible version or they run even slower.

    My best advice for base protection(esp Vista 64-bit) is get an AV, use Windows firewall, a 64-bit AS and a router with NAT/SPI firewall. Some beta AV's/suites are out for 64-bit but if your PC is mission critical you cannot beta test. :cool:
     
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    This thread is being closed per the current policy.
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