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Old 06-19-2006   #1 (permalink)
Martin deLivron
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anti virus and dual boot

I am dual booting vista with windows xp. Do both operating systems need to
be using the same anti-virus programs or can I use norton on xp and CA ez
antivirus or PC-cillin on the vista side?



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Old 06-20-2006   #2 (permalink)
Yuriy Shkolnikov [MSFT]
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Re: anti virus and dual boot

They can use different programs

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> I am dual booting vista with windows xp. Do both operating systems need

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> be using the same anti-virus programs or can I use norton on xp and CA ez
> antivirus or PC-cillin on the vista side?
>
>



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