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I wouldn’t mind paying something for antivirus protection etc but I need to return the Norton 360 premium software I bought at Best Buy last week when they told me it is absolutely compatible with Windows Vista.
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Then I read the above helpful post from ‘Cybertooth’ where you say “after installing eScan I’ll be buying a subscription when the trial period runs out”, so I was glad to know it is a subscription.
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I had googled and found that eScan is Free ( so it says) to download, but once on their ‘download center’ page there are two options, ‘download manager link’ or ‘download alternate link’. Just a little worried I might mess up downloading an antivurus.
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I am really not too savvy with computers and when I got my PC many years ago I used a Norton DVD which was simple but now not available. Since Comcast eliminated Norton’s antivirus I need one ASAP. I was happy to find your site and these posts regarding Windows Vista. I’ll be buying a subscription when the trial period runs out. After installing eScan, I reinstalled these two programs and eScan has had no further complaints about them. One minor note: eScan was a bit annoying during installation, in that it claimed that the ZoneAlarm Firewall and Spybot Search & Destroy were “incompatible” with their software and needed to be uninstalled. In order to encourage them to continue to support Vista, I bought a subscription to Panda Dome for the laptop. However, the Panda folks were not left completely out in the cold. In general, eScan seems to have a broader range of configuration options than does Panda Dome. This is important in my situation because the desktop system continues to be a significant business machine downloading email. The decisive factor was that eScan includes an email scanning module including a junk mail filter, whereas Panda Dome doesn’t seem to have any features that are visibly related to scanning mail. Update: I have settled on using eScan ISS on the Vista desktop and Panda Dome (paid) on the Vista laptop. If it fails there, then I will decide from among the paid versions of Panda, eScan, and Avast for the tower, and use Panda Dome Free on the laptop. We’ll see next week I will try doing this on the Vista tower as the clock winds down on my Norton 360 subscription. However, that’s Vista build 6003 which technically makes it a Windows Server 2008 system, and that may be at the root of that problem.
#Escan vs kaspersky install
I read somewhere on McAfee’s site that it’s possible to install some edition of that company’s software on Vista, but the installation kept failing on the laptop. I would end up using one of the paid products on the main Vista PC and a free product on the laptop. Not as full-featured, but it’s free of charge. I’m running Panda Dome Free on another test system, also with positive impressions. This is not a free program (I’m using their 30-day free trial), but first impressions are positive. It installed KB3000483 (I don’t remember if I had it hidden or what).Īpparently it uses the Bit Defender engine, so virus detection would be expected to be good. I tried the tool to “Download Latest Hotfix (Microsoft Windows OS)” and it proceeded to search for and install available updates. It has a firewall that the user can set to be “interactive” (meaning that it tells you that a program is trying to access the Internet and then asks you if you want to allow or block it). I’m trying out the eScan Internet Security Suite on a test Vista system. My hope is that this list will be helpful to the hardy band of remaining Vista users out there as their own current AV solutions jump ship. I’m not looking to put those kinds on this list, but rather primary AV applications akin to Norton and the three listed above. Note that there are other categories of software that help to protect computers but are not considered “antivirus”, such as “anti-malware” programs like MBAM and “anti-exploit” programs like EMET or HitmanPro.Alert. So please, no “Mickey Mouse Internet Security” that stops 40% of attacks: I’d like for us to build a list of quality software. I would ask that any additions to the list be for programs that (a) are from known companies and (b) have a good track record for protecting PCs. If you have verified other antivirus programs where either the current version still works on Vista, or whose last version that installs on Vista is still receiving regular virus definition updates, then please add them to this list.