Vista and AVG antivirus

Dak9767

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• Aug 22, 2007

• #1

Will AVG free antivirus work with Vista 32bit? If not are there any free antivirus programs that will work with Vista?

 

torin3

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• Aug 22, 2007

• #2

It will even work with 64bit Vista too. I've used it on 64bit Ultimate.

 

rdrash

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• Aug 22, 2007

• #3

Works for me....but the Windows defender blocked it from loading at startup...so I disabled windows defender..no more problem.

 

hkh

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• Aug 22, 2007

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Its not a 64bit scanner though from what I have read only the paid version is, so it will only scan the 32 bit files.

 

EmAn

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• Aug 22, 2007

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hkh said:

Its not a 64bit scanner though from what I have read only the paid version is, so it will only scan the 32 bit files.

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while that is true there are very few 64bit programs so most of his stuff would be scanned and be protected

 

Monty_Python

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• Aug 22, 2007

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I'm running Vista 32, I looked around and NOD32...seems to be the best and its also the least resource hungry...but not free... $40.

 

Route44

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• Aug 23, 2007

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Monty_Python said:

I'm running Vista 32, I looked around and NOD32...seems to be the best and its also the least resource hungry...but not free... $40.

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Yes, but it is also one of the very best in the business and as you so rightly point out is the least resource hungry. NOD32 is well worth the $40 and though they don't update hourly like Kaspersky they still update 3-5 times daily. Excellent choice.