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| Not having educated myself on the ins and outs of the various security suites, I have some questions:
From a purely functional POV, does native support for X64 really matter? Or more gently - is there some aspect of a 64 bit OS that prevents, or hinders a 32 bit app from performing it's job? Is there some inability inherent in a 32 bit app preventing it from doing it's job effectively when it's running on a 64 bit OS instead of a 32 bit one?
I know that a native 64 bit app would be the choice for a 64 bit OS because it should run best. (I say 'should' because well written 32 bit code is always going to be better than garbage dumped into a 64 bit compiler)
Anyways - I would simply like to better understand if there's some 'hole' if a given user is running a 32 bit Anti Virus suite on their 64 bit system. | |
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Just as you said, all 32 bit programs that OFFICIALLY SUPPORT Vista x64 DO RUN and FUNCTION properly. There is no reason to believe that a 64 bit OS which natively supports 32 bit apps would hinder or prevent them from doing their job.
And just as you said, a native 64 bit app would be the choice for a 64 bit OS, because not only it would run best, but would also run fastest and be most efficient.
To me, it's just cleaner. When I see all of the processes in the Task Manager without *32, I know that they are native 64 bit applications and are doing their 64 bit processing the right way.
I hate the fact that Adobe, 2 years after Vista x64 beta was released, still doesn't have a 64 bit FLASH plugin for IE or Firefox. This really blows.