looking for free vista virus scanner because mcafee failed to work

Hi all,

I just installed vista, and much to my surprise "mcafee virusscan 2007
plus" doesn't work with vista !?! I get a warning from windows, and
from what i've read it is not a good idea to ignore it and install
anyhow. I mean it's the 2007 edition for f*cks sake. Did the guys at
mcafee somehow miss the whole vista thing, or is MS trying to block
second party virus products.

Anyway does anybody know if there is a way to get mcafee to function
(with some tweaking, a new patch or something like that). And if that
is not possible, can anybody recommend a decent free virusscanner that
works with vista.

Thanks for any help with this.


Best regards,
Eric

BTW: Is it me, or is Vista just WinXP + a shiny new look. I mean i
really couldn't find any new & improved features. They pretty much
canceled all cool things that should be in there (new fs, .net only
api, new shell, secure computing, etc, etc ) during the development
stage, and ended up with transparent windows as a main feature.

And the saddest part of it all: the fact that most people are actually
very happy with these new transparent windows, and have no need for
actual improvements :-/

No, it's quite a bit more, which is why your McAfee doesn't
work with it. If you check the box I don't think you'll find
Vista listed in the OSs supported.
If you had the Enterprise version 8.5 of McAfee, that'd work.

I personally think Vista is not worth the upgrade yet

I was using AVG free with Vista for a while, then it stopped working
properly
(won't startup with Windows), but you can start AVG after every boot
manually, and it runs OK for me.

Well, you're obviously stupid enough to buy Vista so springing for
a compatible virus scanner should be easy for you.

Back in the day, I purchased a copy of the McAfee Office program for
around $80US and used it with my Windows NT 3.51 installation. A month
or so later, I upgraded to Windows NT 4.0. I attempted to reinstall
McAfee Office, and got a *McAfee* dialog warning me "Whoa! You are
using NT 4.0! Stop right now." And it did.

So I contacted McAfee for an upgrade ... maybe even a $20 fee would be
alright? Nope. "Sorry, sir. You much purchase another $80 package."

Bye-bye, McAfee.

[Giuseppe]

I previously had an issue with Mcfee on Vista versions OS, is because it s***t this antivirus messes up you Registry but you can always fix it it has a simply solution and it will run just fine on Vista but I would need to know if an erro pops up when you star the machine.
If you like to perform a free online scan with a gud antivirus I would suggest with TRENDMICRO they are very good
If you wish to purchased a new ANtivirus I would suggest AVG Internet SEcurity latest version is very stable with Vista Version

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