Vista security

tanner · 19 May 2007 at 10:19

What are people using for various security utilities in vista so far am struggling to find a firewall and antispyware software for vista but on the other hand antivirus i find is great comming from Nod 32 very highly rated, what security app are people using that are also on vista?

Beerbaron · 19 May 2007 at 10:26

there are a few threads that i came a cross when looking. i settled on avg

Uhtred · 19 May 2007 at 10:26

None. I'm just sticking it out with inbuilt vista security. 4 months and no issues

this_is_gav · 19 May 2007 at 10:33

Zap said:
None. I'm just sticking it out with inbuilt vista security. 4 months and no issues

...that you know of

I agree though. If you've a degree of sense then becoming the target of a virus or trojan is extremely unlikely. A hardware firewall is nearly always enough protection.

As we allow kids to bring documents things in from home and on PDAs we do use AV at work of course though.

Glaucus · 19 May 2007 at 10:59

Avast works well and is free.

Margaret · 19 May 2007 at 11:07

I'm using McAfee for my anti-virus.

csmager · 19 May 2007 at 11:07

On a random note, d'you think NOD32 will be renamed NOD64 when they finally make a 64-bit version?

Uhtred · 19 May 2007 at 12:46

this_is_gav said:
...that you know of

I agree though. If you've a degree of sense then becoming the target of a virus or trojan is extremely unlikely. A hardware firewall is nearly always enough protection.

As we allow kids to bring documents things in from home and on PDAs we do use AV at work of course though.

I like to think i have a degree of sense

My brother sometimes uses my pc for games but he doesn't have admin rights. It's pretty easy to tell if you're infected with something, popups, high cpu usage etc so i'm confident that i'm fine

tanner · 19 May 2007 at 14:16

Yeh and i guess most viruses etc are still written for xp and not for vista but it will come when we need good security when vista become more mainstream