Vista - A conundrum regarding mutliboot single computer (antivirus related)

On this computer with Vista RC1 64 bit running sweet, 32 bit Vista RC1
running equally sweet with a full retail of XP Pro as default OS via
VistaBootPro I wonder about anti-virus, anti-malware and so forth...

Should I need three AV applications?

Each of the operating systems is more or less on a platter of its own.

My own data can be seen from each OS (I chose to make My Documents
dedicated to a single platter and each login will look there and seems
to do so effectively (that is three admin levels, three limited user
levels and one meta computer admin)

Is there a way to use one AV arrangement that each of the separate OSs
will recognise and work with?

Or is it necessary to have three separate AV applications and what, one
wonders, will be the consequence of, say, having three separate OSs each
having its own dedicated AV all looking at the same platter of user data?

<snip>
> Is there a way to use one AV arrangement that each of the separate OSs
> will recognise and work with?
>
> Or is it necessary to have three separate AV applications and what, one
> wonders, will be the consequence of, say, having three separate OSs each
> having its own dedicated AV all looking at the same platter of user data?


I have a lot of multi-boot machines and find it best to install the
anti-virus application
seperately...
However it may be possible to keep updates in a common folder
if you use the same AV software on all three systems.

A good reply!

There are consequences: namely server, possibly a windows (home) server.

This may be more related to OneCare but their forum seems less obvious
to find.

My present arrangement is a Freecom FSG-3 device (it has made life very
easy as it affords internet connectivity for three devices, built-in
firewall and 250 Gig of shared access single drive with extensible options).

For this computer, Mac Pro and occasional laptop connectivity (the other
two computers are more or less hard-wired in) it is a versatile arrangement.

Would it dispel with all my fears were there a (home) server side AV
arrangement?

If so by whom?

(I am frightened of letting Windows XP near the shared drive in case it
makes it naughtily unavailable to the Mac - the present device seems to
have a linux based solution hence easily readable by Mac and PCs)

Is there a way

philo wrote:
> <snip>
>> Is there a way to use one AV arrangement that each of the separate OSs
>> will recognise and work with?
>>
>> Or is it necessary to have three separate AV applications and what, one
>> wonders, will be the consequence of, say, having three separate OSs each
>> having its own dedicated AV all looking at the same platter of user data?
>
>
> I have a lot of multi-boot machines and find it best to install the
> anti-virus application
> seperately...
> However it may be possible to keep updates in a common folder
> if you use the same AV software on all three systems.
>
>

<snip>
> For this computer, Mac Pro and occasional laptop connectivity (the other
> two computers are more or less hard-wired in) it is a versatile
arrangement.
>
> Would it dispel with all my fears were there a (home) server side AV
> arrangement?
>
> If so by whom?
>
> (I am frightened of letting Windows XP near the shared drive in case it
> makes it naughtily unavailable to the Mac - the present device seems to
> have a linux based solution hence easily readable by Mac and PCs)
>
> Is there a way
>



Here's my take (and I certainly could be wrong).

If you are using a free antivirus program...and your computer is for home
use...
there probably would be no licensing issues if you just installed it three
times.

OTOH: For any commercial use of your machine...you really need to purchase
the software. As a home user...I've occasionally paid for free software that
I thought
was so good...a payment was in order!

Yes, that seems a reasonable 20th C solution.

But in the 21st C with home networking on multiple OS single computers
with home server arrangements to equally multiple OS (linux-OS X -
Windows) I had hope that a more creative solution may be in the offing.

(Server first level solution with matched , recognised and acknoeledged
local machine solutions all with accountability to the major registered
user?)


philo wrote:
> <snip>
>> For this computer, Mac Pro and occasional laptop connectivity (the other
>> two computers are more or less hard-wired in) it is a versatile
> arrangement.
>> Would it dispel with all my fears were there a (home) server side AV
>> arrangement?
>>
>> If so by whom?
>>
>> (I am frightened of letting Windows XP near the shared drive in case it
>> makes it naughtily unavailable to the Mac - the present device seems to
>> have a linux based solution hence easily readable by Mac and PCs)
>>
>> Is there a way
>>
>
>
>
> Here's my take (and I certainly could be wrong).
>
> If you are using a free antivirus program...and your computer is for home
> use...
> there probably would be no licensing issues if you just installed it three
> times.
>
> OTOH: For any commercial use of your machine...you really need to purchase
> the software. As a home user...I've occasionally paid for free software that
> I thought
> was so good...a payment was in order!
>
>

"deebs" <deebs@false.false> wrote in message
news:%23M3JPPxQHHA.3592@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
> Yes, that seems a reasonable 20th C solution.
>
> But in the 21st C with home networking on multiple OS single computers
> with home server arrangements to equally multiple OS (linux-OS X -
> Windows) I had hope that a more creative solution may be in the offing.
>
> (Server first level solution with matched , recognised and acknoeledged
> local machine solutions all with accountability to the major registered
> user?)
>
>


You will have to pardon me as until recently I did not even own a
computer...
and was quite happy with my 1939 L.C. Smith & Corona typewriter.

Well...that all changed when my girlfriend gave me her old computer
a few years ago...and I soon enough turned into a computer geek.

"Hey", I yelled..."how do you like that, I've finally entered the 20th
century!"

She just laughed at me and pointed out that now it's the 21st century...

I cannot offer any more computer help I'm afraid...
but if you need to know how to replace a typewriter ribbon...and where to
even get them
anymore...I can help

Were we developers, suitably financed, I think we have discovered an
early 21st century product need.

Ah well ....



philo wrote:
> "deebs" <deebs@false.false> wrote in message
> news:%23M3JPPxQHHA.3592@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>> Yes, that seems a reasonable 20th C solution.
>>
>> But in the 21st C with home networking on multiple OS single computers
>> with home server arrangements to equally multiple OS (linux-OS X -
>> Windows) I had hope that a more creative solution may be in the offing.
>>
>> (Server first level solution with matched , recognised and acknoeledged
>> local machine solutions all with accountability to the major registered
>> user?)
>>
>>
>
>
> You will have to pardon me as until recently I did not even own a
> computer...
> and was quite happy with my 1939 L.C. Smith & Corona typewriter.
>
> Well...that all changed when my girlfriend gave me her old computer
> a few years ago...and I soon enough turned into a computer geek.
>
> "Hey", I yelled..."how do you like that, I've finally entered the 20th
> century!"
>
> She just laughed at me and pointed out that now it's the 21st century...
>
> I cannot offer any more computer help I'm afraid...
> but if you need to know how to replace a typewriter ribbon...and where to
> even get them
> anymore...I can help
>
>

Any program you want to use from within an operating system must be
installed in that operating system. Now, some programs can run from a
network server, but you still need a license for each computer it is going
to be utilized "from".

--


Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!



"deebs" <deebs@false.false> wrote in message
news:eqtMe2wQHHA.412@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> On this computer with Vista RC1 64 bit running sweet, 32 bit Vista RC1
> running equally sweet with a full retail of XP Pro as default OS via
> VistaBootPro I wonder about anti-virus, anti-malware and so forth...
>
> Should I need three AV applications?
>
> Each of the operating systems is more or less on a platter of its own.
>
> My own data can be seen from each OS (I chose to make My Documents
> dedicated to a single platter and each login will look there and seems to
> do so effectively (that is three admin levels, three limited user levels
> and one meta computer admin)
>
> Is there a way to use one AV arrangement that each of the separate OSs
> will recognise and work with?
>
> Or is it necessary to have three separate AV applications and what, one
> wonders, will be the consequence of, say, having three separate OSs each
> having its own dedicated AV all looking at the same platter of user data?

True - but in a home server, much like a work-based server, a single
utility would seem on the face of it to be a neat solution?


Richard Urban wrote:
> Any program you want to use from within an operating system must be
> installed in that operating system. Now, some programs can run from a
> network server, but you still need a license for each computer it is
> going to be utilized "from".
>