Which Anti-Virus Software To Use With Windows Vista

January 30th, 2007 • Related • Filed Under

Although I wasn’t sure if I needed an Anti-Virus package with Windows Vista, Vista is prompting me to install one so I’m not going to take any chances and risk it. Below is my recommendation for which option you should go for, based upon my experience of evaluating and purchasing millions of security application licences.

The options presented by Windows Vista are:

  • CA
  • Windows Live OneCare
  • Kaspersky Labs
  • Trend Micro
  • Symantec

I can whole-heartedly recommend Kaspersky without even hesitating. Although, still not a household name, their security products are the best on the market by far in my view.   I can also guarantee that Kaspersky’s software won’t be ‘bloated’.

Another good option is F-Secure, although surprisingly their product wasn’t listed even though it was available during the Vista beta trials.

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  1. #1

    Comment by Zath on 14 March 2007:

    I’ve not used it on Vista yet, but I’ve sworn by NOD32 for the past 3 years or so, it has a very low resource footprint and seems to work very well generally usually having more than one update per day. I’ve recommended it to many people and they’ve all been pretty satisfied customers!

    I tried F-Secure before NOD32, but found that it I had bit of an issue with network connectivity because of the built in firewall, in the end I gave up on it, but I presume its improved since then though.

  2. #2

    Comment by stevestr on 12 April 2007:

    I have a new Windows Vista Home Premium Raid System from Dell.
    I use Protector Plus 2007 Windows Vista anti-virus from Proland Software http://www.prolandsoftware.com
    It works excellent with full email scanning, realtime scanning, and a feature I really like called “InstaUpdate”, which automatically does a daily update or you can just hit the “InstaUpdate” to get the latest virus protection. Alert emails can be sent to your email. I have my InstaUpdate set to search and download updates daily.
    Price is $29.95 for first year sign-up, then $11.95 annual renewal thereafter.
    No problems at all on windows vista.

  3. #3

    Comment by NLP Master on 31 August 2007:

    I’ve tried AVG (missed quite a few viruses), F-Secure (slows down my PC), Kapersky (missed some spyware) and Norton 360.

    I liked the latter. It got virtually everything I threw at it AND didn’t slow down my dual core like the older Symantec Antivirus 2006 did.

  4. #4

    Comment by Zath on 31 August 2007:

    I was reading a recent issue of PC Pro the other day and they did a labtest comparison of all the major names in anti-virus and their pick of the bunch ended up being Kaspersky.

    I may give it a try sometime having just upgraded to Vista, I’ve still got NOD32, but it didn’t get a great write up, hmmmm.

    http://www.pcpro.co.uk/labs/155/antivirus-software/products.html

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