Antivirus

[yaco78]

Arghh. I've been using Symantec Antivirus x64 on my Vista drive, and whenever I try to install it on W7, it says that the installation was interrupted and that my system was not modified. It gets a while into the installation before a problem. It extracts all the files then gets through a loading bar of some other stuff, then it starts to list file names of some .zips and it crashes from there. This is my only antivirus software, and I don't like not having any. Does anyone know how I might get this thing to install? Or know of other effective antivirus software that won't cost me? Thanks

 

[The Sly Assassin]

This is what im using, and its great, goes easy on resources, and does the job : Avira AntiVir Personal - FREE Antivirus

I was an AVG user, until i somehow had a random assortment of rootkits and such.
anyways, hope this helps.

 

[yaco78]

Hey as long as it does the job, I don't really care. I've never really had a problem before. Some trojans here and there from torrenting but they always get picked up. I'll check that program out. Thanks!

 

[yaco78]

Yep, looks nice! Not bad features for free software =)

 

[The Sly Assassin]

Yeah, and its scans dont take that long either, and dont chomp on your resources, which i find great, unlike some other AV's....

 

[zone23]

I like Avast! I use the Pro version but I recommend Avast! Home all the time.

http://www.avast.com/eng/avast_4_home.html

 

[YupYup]

Arghh. I've been using Symantec Antivirus x64 on my Vista drive, and whenever I try to install it on W7, it says that the installation was interrupted and that my system was not modified. It gets a while into the installation before a problem. It extracts all the files then gets through a loading bar of some other stuff, then it starts to list file names of some .zips and it crashes from there. This is my only antivirus software, and I don't like not having any. Does anyone know how I might get this thing to install? Or know of other effective antivirus software that won't cost me? Thanks

You could try installing it in compatibility mode ( right click > properties > compatibility tab) or try one of these http://www.sevenforums.com/news/8967-windows-7-rc-nis-norton-360-compatible-builds-available.html