antivirus software

I have McAfee and was told thru this community that it is not compatible with
Vista. A friend told me to get Avast, which is a free download. What is
your position on this Avast and is it compatible with Vista?
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dsmith

I'm using Avast on Vista Ultimate and haven't had a problem with it.


"dsmith" <dsmith@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Thanks...........
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dsmith


"KC" wrote:

dsmith wrote: McAfee was bundled with Vista Home Premium on my new Toshiba laptop I
purchased a few weeks ago.

I've since deleted it and moved on to better things. : )

On Tue, 2 Oct 2007 11:01:01 -0700, dsmith
<dsmith@xxxxxx> wrote:

Avast works just fine here. I'm happy with it. I would have McAfee or
Norton on any of my machines.

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Thank you. Do you know if I should uninstall McAffee before I download Avast?
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dsmith


"Iain" wrote:

On Tue, 02 Oct 2007 13:09:30 -0700, "Ken Blake, MVP"
<kblake@xxxxxx> wrote:

Sorry, important word missing. That should be "would *not* have ..."


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You should not have to active anti virus programs at the same time.
Uninstall McAfee and reboot before installing any other anti virus.

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Jupiter Jones [MVP]
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http://www.dts-l.org


"dsmith" <dsmith@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Tue, 2 Oct 2007 13:11:31 -0700, dsmith wrote:
1. Removal tools for recent Mcafee products
http://forums.mcafeehelp.com/viewtopic.php?t=71943

2. Free antivirus - avast! 4 Home Edition
http://www.avast.com/eng/avast_4_home.html
(Choose Custom Installation and under Resident
Protection, uncheck: Internet Mail and Outlook/Exchange.)

Disable the e-mail scanning function during installation as it provides no
additional protection. In fact, most of experts believe that scanning
incoming and outgoing mail causes e-mail file corruption.