Antivirus softwware

Does any one know of a version of antivirus software that is reasonably
priced for xp64. the only version I found was by symantec and it was the
corporate version. not a single pc version.

This is for my home computer. i am currently running 32 bit version.

John
Fri May 19 15:36:05 CDT 2006

Avast price free

"ted185" <ted185@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:E378ADF2-5B13-4C88-84BF-8FCD3C8998E6@microsoft.com...
> Does any one know of a version of antivirus software that is reasonably
> priced for xp64. the only version I found was by symantec and it was
> the
> corporate version. not a single pc version.
>
> This is for my home computer. i am currently running 32 bit version.

Andre
Fri May 19 15:40:58 CDT 2006

Charlie Russel has a list on his blog that you might wanna check out:
http://msmvps.com/blogs/xperts64/archive/2006/03/05/85483.aspx
--
Andre
Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com
Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre
http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta
"ted185" <ted185@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:E378ADF2-5B13-4C88-84BF-8FCD3C8998E6@microsoft.com...
> Does any one know of a version of antivirus software that is reasonably
> priced for xp64. the only version I found was by symantec and it was
> the
> corporate version. not a single pc version.
>
> This is for my home computer. i am currently running 32 bit version.

Kevin
Fri May 19 17:22:27 CDT 2006

I use Avast 4.7 Home Edition (it's Free of Charge for Home User's, the
Corporate Professional Edition is only $49.99 U.S.A. Dollar's a Year Per
Computer) with Windows XP X64 Edition. http://www.avast.com/

"ted185" <ted185@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:E378ADF2-5B13-4C88-84BF-8FCD3C8998E6@microsoft.com...
> Does any one know of a version of antivirus software that is reasonably
> priced for xp64. the only version I found was by symantec and it was
> the
> corporate version. not a single pc version.
>
> This is for my home computer. i am currently running 32 bit version.

Red
Fri May 19 20:03:02 CDT 2006

Avast is free alright but when you'd decide to dump it, you won't be able to
do so because of traces it leaves in the registry that cannot be erased. I
use McAffee version 8.0 and it works for XP32 and 64

"You get what you pay for"

"John Barnes" <jbfoofy@email.net> wrote in message
news:%23QfIeP4eGHA.2076@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
> Avast price free
>
> "ted185" <ted185@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:E378ADF2-5B13-4C88-84BF-8FCD3C8998E6@microsoft.com...
>> Does any one know of a version of antivirus software that is reasonably
>> priced for xp64.

Graham
Fri May 19 21:12:02 CDT 2006

Red wrote:
> Avast is free alright but when you'd decide to dump it, you won't be able to
> do so because of traces it leaves in the registry that cannot be erased. I
> use McAffee version 8.0 and it works for XP32 and 64

Ah, echos of last week.

Graham.

John
Fri May 19 21:26:57 CDT 2006

Guess he missed the uninstall program from the Avast site and what registry
entry can't be erased? Next to Norton, McAfee is another disaster to try to
uninstall. Hope he enjoys regristry editing when he tries to undo it.
Seems to be common with A/V products, but at least Avast has automated
theirs and Norton and McAfee have pages of steps to manually remove theirs.
Been there, done that. Never again with either.

"Graham" <norrisg@nospam.linkline.com> wrote in message
news:OIUgIL7eGHA.4900@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> Red wrote:
>> Avast is free alright but when you'd decide to dump it, you won't be able
>> to do so because of traces it leaves in the registry that cannot be
>> erased. I use McAffee version 8.0 and it works for XP32 and 64
>
> Ah, echos of last week.
>
> Graham.

Larry
Fri May 19 23:01:33 CDT 2006

"John Barnes" <jbfoofy@email.net> wrote in message
news:exMXjT7eGHA.3456@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
> Guess he missed the uninstall program from the Avast site and what
> registry entry can't be erased? Next to Norton, McAfee is another disaster
> to try to uninstall. Hope he enjoys regristry editing when he tries to
> undo it. Seems to be common with A/V products, but at least Avast has
> automated theirs and Norton and McAfee have pages of steps to manually
> remove theirs. Been there, done that. Never again with either.
>
> "Graham" <norrisg@nospam.linkline.com> wrote in message
> news:OIUgIL7eGHA.4900@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>> Red wrote:
>>> Avast is free alright but when you'd decide to dump it, you won't be
>>> able to do so because of traces it leaves in the registry that cannot be
>>> erased. I use McAffee version 8.0 and it works for XP32 and 64
>>
>> Ah, echos of last week.
>>
>> Graham.

When I was running XP 32 bit before this system, I tried McAffee. Talk
about a recourse hog. It would regularly hit my CPU (AMD x2 3800+) for no
reason that I could see. I wasn't getting email. I had to dump it. Three
weeks ago, I was called to a client's office to troubleshoot one of their XP
Pro workstations. Norton AV was gobbling up memory. The system would sit
there idle, and over the course of a day, take 200+ MB. I dumped it and
installed Avast. They've been happy as a clam since.

-Larry
Maximize Software, Inc.

Tony
Sat May 20 01:31:40 CDT 2006

Actually, we've had one (1) other report of this happening, and checking the
Avast home site it turns out this is a phenomena that they are aware of and
something they produced a distinct un-installation utility to counter, if
you have that problem it is right there in full view on the main page.

You don't have to 'like' every good product there is, and if you don't like
it you'll find something else, but it is not fair to put a very nice product
to critisism for a failure that pops up in very few situations and which
they have fixed as well. I am perfectly happy with Avast, and I am not
alone. Check it out and make your own judgement. I have seen no other A/V do
it's job without weighing down the OS and the machine in a way that is quite
obvious.

Tony. . .


"Red" <der@mapson.net> wrote in message
news:eQ%233lk6eGHA.2076@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
> Avast is free alright but when you'd decide to dump it, you won't be able
> to do so because of traces it leaves in the registry that cannot be
> erased. I use McAffee version 8.0 and it works for XP32 and 64
>
> "You get what you pay for"
>
> "John Barnes" <jbfoofy@email.net> wrote in message
> news:%23QfIeP4eGHA.2076@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>> Avast price free
>>
>> "ted185" <ted185@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:E378ADF2-5B13-4C88-84BF-8FCD3C8998E6@microsoft.com...
>>> Does any one know of a version of antivirus software that is reasonably
>>> priced for xp64.
>
>

Tony
Sat May 20 02:05:06 CDT 2006

This brings to mind a local joke that surfaced here a few years ago. After a
couple of incidents there was a Graffiti down town that said: "Help your
local Police - Beat yourself over the head!"

With these 'other' A/V's you pay a substantial subscription for being
abused. If anybody feels abused by the use of Avast, at least they didn't
have to pay. A vast ( sic! ) improvement, I would say.

Tony. . .


"John Barnes" <jbfoofy@email.net> wrote in message
news:exMXjT7eGHA.3456@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
> Guess he missed the uninstall program from the Avast site and what
> registry entry can't be erased? Next to Norton, McAfee is another disaster
> to try to uninstall. Hope he enjoys regristry editing when he tries to
> undo it. Seems to be common with A/V products, but at least Avast has
> automated theirs and Norton and McAfee have pages of steps to manually
> remove theirs. Been there, done that. Never again with either.
>
> "Graham" <norrisg@nospam.linkline.com> wrote in message
> news:OIUgIL7eGHA.4900@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>> Red wrote:
>>> Avast is free alright but when you'd decide to dump it, you won't be
>>> able to do so because of traces it leaves in the registry that cannot be
>>> erased. I use McAffee version 8.0 and it works for XP32 and 64
>>
>> Ah, echos of last week.
>>
>> Graham.
>
>

Josh
Sat May 20 02:51:10 CDT 2006

I use Grisoft AVG 7.1 Professional on my Windows XP x64 machine and
have no complaints. i've got it configured to do its thing in the
background; I never see it and it never intrudes upon whatever I'm
doing--just the way I like it.

http://www.grisoft.com

I don't know off-hand if the free version of AVG works on XP x64:
http://free.grisoft.com

Josh

On Fri, 19 May 2006 13:25:01 -0700, ted185
<ted185@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>Does any one know of a version of antivirus software that is reasonably
>priced for xp64. the only version I found was by symantec and it was the
>corporate version. not a single pc version.
>
>This is for my home computer. i am currently running 32 bit version.

Jud
Sat May 20 03:54:08 CDT 2006

On Fri, 19 May 2006 21:03:02 -0400, "Red" <der@mapson.net> wrote:

>Avast is free alright but when you'd decide to dump it, you won't be able to
>do so because of traces it leaves in the registry that cannot be erased.

If you would have browsed the Avast support site, you would have found the
link to an uninstall utility at:
http://www.avast.com/eng/avast_uninstall_util.html
And no, don't pin this only on Avast. There is plenty of programs which
leave traces in the registry and undeleted folders.

jud

Inviato da X-Privat.Org - Registrazione gratuita http://www.x-privat.org/join.php

John
Sat May 20 11:39:15 CDT 2006

Have you tried the AVG 64-bit firewall?

"Josh Hillman" <hillman@talstar.com> wrote in message
news:78it62lavnutn3bgri1qs6n09t3ijqsf97@4ax.com...
>I use Grisoft AVG 7.1 Professional on my Windows XP x64 machine and
> have no complaints. i've got it configured to do its thing in the
> background; I never see it and it never intrudes upon whatever I'm
> doing--just the way I like it.
>
> http://www.grisoft.com
>
> I don't know off-hand if the free version of AVG works on XP x64:
> http://free.grisoft.com
>
> Josh
>
> On Fri, 19 May 2006 13:25:01 -0700, ted185
> <ted185@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>
>>Does any one know of a version of antivirus software that is reasonably
>>priced for xp64. the only version I found was by symantec and it was
>>the
>>corporate version. not a single pc version.
>>
>>This is for my home computer. i am currently running 32 bit version.

Steve
Sat May 20 12:18:58 CDT 2006

Josh Hillman wrote:

>I use Grisoft AVG 7.1 Professional on my Windows XP x64 machine and
>have no complaints. i've got it configured to do its thing in the
>background; I never see it and it never intrudes upon whatever I'm
>doing--just the way I like it.
>
>http://www.grisoft.com
>
>I don't know off-hand if the free version of AVG works on XP x64:
>http://free.grisoft.com

So far, Free AVG has not supported x64. But then AVG is extremely
reasonably priced anyway ($39 for 2 years, or $59 for 2 years for 2
machines [SOHO2]). Oh, and licence renewals are 50% of purchase price.

--
Steve Foster [SBS MVP]
---------------------------------------
MVPs do not work for Microsoft. Please reply only to the newsgroups.

Mike
Sat May 20 14:12:24 CDT 2006

ted185 wrote:
> Does any one know of a version of antivirus software that is reasonably
> priced for xp64. the only version I found was by symantec and it was the
> corporate version. not a single pc version.
>
> This is for my home computer. i am currently running 32 bit version.

Avast worked fine for me for a while and then hogged the CPU at odd times.

NOD32 gives you a month's free trial and so far is fast, reliable and
hassle free.
I'm probably going to get this one when the trial period is up.
Try it for your self.

Mike

Josh
Sat May 20 16:43:41 CDT 2006

That, I have not done, so I have no experience with it.

Josh

On Sat, 20 May 2006 09:39:15 -0700, "John Barnes" <jbfoofy@email.net>
wrote:

>Have you tried the AVG 64-bit firewall?
>
>"Josh Hillman" <hillman@talstar.com> wrote in message
>news:78it62lavnutn3bgri1qs6n09t3ijqsf97@4ax.com...
>>I use Grisoft AVG 7.1 Professional on my Windows XP x64 machine and
>> have no complaints. i've got it configured to do its thing in the
>> background; I never see it and it never intrudes upon whatever I'm
>> doing--just the way I like it.
>>
>> http://www.grisoft.com
>>
>> I don't know off-hand if the free version of AVG works on XP x64:
>> http://free.grisoft.com
>>
>> Josh
>>
>> On Fri, 19 May 2006 13:25:01 -0700, ted185
>> <ted185@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>>
>>>Does any one know of a version of antivirus software that is reasonably
>>>priced for xp64. the only version I found was by symantec and it was
>>>the
>>>corporate version. not a single pc version.
>>>
>>>This is for my home computer. i am currently running 32 bit version.
>

Yak64
Sat May 20 19:45:42 CDT 2006

Norton crashed on me once during an update, and the system was so
utterly messed up I had to completely reinstall windows. Not even the
Symantec uninstall tool and a lot of manual registry editing would fix
the problem.

I'm not as disdainful of free AV software as I once was, that's for
sure.

On Fri, 19 May 2006 19:26:57 -0700, "John Barnes" <jbfoofy@email.net>
wrote:

> Next to Norton, McAfee is another disaster to try to
>uninstall.

Kevin
Sun May 21 11:39:24 CDT 2006

P.S. It (Avast 4.7 Home Edition) work's so great for me, that I am using it
on my Mom and Dad's Computer as well (which they are also running a
different copy of Windows XP X64 Edition, as well), just FYI.

"Kevin John Panzke" <kevpan815@nospam.hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:e6ft3K5eGHA.4932@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
>I use Avast 4.7 Home Edition (it's Free of Charge for Home User's, the
>Corporate Professional Edition is only $49.99 U.S.A. Dollar's a Year Per
>Computer) with Windows XP X64 Edition. http://www.avast.com/
>
> "ted185" <ted185@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:E378ADF2-5B13-4C88-84BF-8FCD3C8998E6@microsoft.com...
>> Does any one know of a version of antivirus software that is reasonably
>> priced for xp64. the only version I found was by symantec and it was
>> the
>> corporate version. not a single pc version.
>>
>> This is for my home computer. i am currently running 32 bit version.
>
>