has anyone used avast or avira on windows 7 x64

was wondering if anyone has tried either avast or avira on 64bit windows. i think i may try one of those and wondered if it worked well. also i have prevx, gonna be trying it out. but wont be buying it till payday and was wondering if im running that if that will cover my anti-virus portion or if i need somethin like avast or avira as well

 

Avast runs very well on my 64-bit machine. Avira does, too, but the WebGuard will cause slowdown when loading some pages. You can install without the WebGuard.

I like Prevx, but I prefer to use a sig-based AV with Prevx's in-the-cloud approach.

 

ok, thanks. also mvdu can i use prevx and Avast? or is there no need to run both.

thanks
dan

 

You're welcome! Yep, you can run them both. Sometimes incompatibilities with Prevx crop up, but they are rare.

 

Avira works just fine on Win 7 RTM x64.

 

I installed Avast on my first Windows 7 64-bit install and it worked great! I had major issues after removing Avast to try Avira on that install, but it is important to note that I was trying a very new Beta version of Avira at the time.

On my latest install I have Microsoft Security Essentials and Prevx. Both work great with no issues.