Are there any 64bit AntiVirus packages yet

Originally Posted by MadMacs
How is Avast on sytem resources? Light. see below.
Do I really need anti-virus software? YES!!!

Aod said:
Avast on my PC is using about 30mb.
it updates silently, without horriable popup dialogs also.
when it finishes, a small blue box pops up saying its finished, which then disappears.

http://www.avast.com/eng/x64.html
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I thought with UAC turned on, this dramatically cuts Viruses getting to imbed into the system. Simply put they try to install silently, but UAC stops it. I know that Virus Protection Vendors werent best happy with UAC but it worked with the Kernel MS produced. I may be totally wrong, but UAC is a pain and is generally turned off even in 64, but after you have tweaked the OS and installed most of your software it can be turned on again with minimal fuss to the day to day running of Vista?

Anyone can blow me away on this, but thoughts here.


Regards

Vic


BTW I have never used Virus protection in 5 years with XP or currently Vista 64, and dont have any probs, I have from time to time installed them, updated and never find anything, and take em off. Saying that I am pretty careful with E-mail and website use, so I reckon that is half the battle anyway.
 
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years ago when CPU grunt was at a premium, i might have turned AV scanning off, but with dual/quad core CPU's every desktop PC has grunt to spare. simply put, people have no excuse not to have AV software.

UAC will help against most viruses and stuff, but all it takes is one virus to get through and bam, you need to reinstall windows.
 
Aod said:
years ago when CPU grunt was at a premium, i might have turned AV scanning off, but with dual/quad core CPU's every desktop PC has grunt to spare. simply put, people have no excuse not to have AV software.

UAC will help against most viruses and stuff, but all it takes is one virus to get through and bam, you need to reinstall windows.
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But I am right in my understanding that UAC will combat Viruses in stopping them? I know eventually someone clever enough will will bypass this. But again, I know (I think) that I am pretty safe so far in my experience, but not everyone is me and I am not everyone, extra protection helps, a bit like sex ;)

I know where your comming from, usually I would say that Virus protection is a good thing especially for the amount of Homers I do for friends and neighbours, but then again, I dont install Vista any new build at the moment unless specified.
 
Reading pcpro last month, xp vs vista fullly patched up with no av installed and being sent 100 mails with viruses present in each, UAC only stopped 3 of them. With several different av programs installed kaspersky came out with 98%, avg 83% (iirc), norton 2007 was laughed out of the house with 63%. Avast, macafee etc all came mid table. Norton only had one below it and it was a poo unknown branded program. So in answer to madmacs, if its on vista, yes you do still require an av program.
 
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Reading pcpro last month, xp vs vista fullly patched up with no av installed and being sent 100 mails with viruses present in each, UAC only stopped 3 of them. With several different av programs installed kaspersky came out with 98%, avg 83% (iirc), norton 2007 was laughed out of the house with 63%. Avast, macafee etc all came mid table. Norton only had one below it and it was a poo unknown branded program. So in answer to madmacs, if its on vista, yes you do still require an av program.
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My Arguement would be with that is would open an e-mail with an attachment from someone you didnt know? I know I wouldnt, again I going on the premise if you are reasoanble with what you are doing then no it shouldnt be a problem, I know that a large percentage of people are not aware of Viruses in email and are caught out. Interesting read there though with bypassing UAC, was always on the cards.

Although I thought filtering via ISP and even Vista own Windows Email client that content filtering would still linit Viruses even getting to the frontline of your inbox.
 
Im a systems analyst/implementation bloke and to be honest some of the places ive been in have numbed me to how silly some people can be, "ive only got a slow net connection, I dont need antivirus"
With vista, windows mail etc, are intelligent to a certain extent but going bty several independant tests ive seen/done, nothing protects like a decent antivirus program and firewall.
 
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What are you gaining by not running an AV program?

I consider myself computer literate, I know not to open strange attachments, I don't visit weird websites, I'm the only one who uses the computer, but I still have AV running in the background. Its not that I don't trust myself, but its better to be safe than sorry.
 
I tried Avast and instantly didn't like it. It was quite slow and seemed to take over my computer.

I tried NOD32 and was tempted.

But in the end I went back to AVG, only this time I got AVG 8 Pro which has native support for 64bit.
 
Well I've just installed Avast on my Vista x64 system and, although it's up and running, all the processes are 32-bit ones. What gives, though this had native 64-bit drivers!?
 
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