Vista, antivirus software, and problems (self inflicted of course)

I screwed around with some of the antiviruses currently offered for Vista and managed to quickly get viruses. Yes, I was downloading those special videos, and yes I had all the firewall/antivirus enabled and up to date. I was just curious if the Vista flavors were as secure as my Norton on Xp has been. Well as of last week they weren't. Anyway, just a heads up.
There were only a very few to test at the time I tried this.

Ziggey said:

I screwed around with some of the antiviruses currently offered for Vista and managed to quickly get viruses. Yes, I was downloading those special videos, and yes I had all the firewall/antivirus enabled and up to date. I was just curious if the Vista flavors were as secure as my Norton on Xp has been. Well as of last week they weren't. Anyway, just a heads up.
There were only a very few to test at the time I tried this.

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As i've been using xp pro, and now using vista - i always use antivir from www.free-av.com and never had problems. Norton is great company but not perfect ant too big for some systems [slow computer work eating a big amount of RAM].

That's my opinion.

I've only stuck with them for so long because I've never had a virus over all these years. I've ran the internet protection package. I should of mentioned earlier that when I said I got a virus, I got one of those pesky ones that delete the dvd drives and creates a new account. My admin account was renamed etc.
Anyway it's just odd since installing a simple game takes 30 minutes to install because Vista askes for permission a dozen times to put things on the hard drive and access the internet with a new progam.