Avast Home works with Windows Vista!!!

OK, your devs rock! This is the only AV I’ve found that actually works with Vista and is fully functional. Thanks for the great product and please keep it free :slight_smile:

Good Work!!! ;D

Nice to hear it! Maybe Vista is not dramatically changed after XP so it’s compatible with avast! And maybe it’s because avast is
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I really want to know how many people are gonna get Window Vista once is comes out. I mean for me it feels like Windows XP just came out yesterday. It’s nice to hear that avast! home edition is compatible with Windows Vista though! :slight_smile:

To get Vista I think I should get a better PC too or to upgrade my current machine! :wink: Nope, I’m going to stay on XP. As Vista should be very expensive for me! ;D

I shan’t be lining Bill’s pockets for some time and certainly not until I know a lot more about what is in Vista (Longhorn) and if it will be worth the expense.
Yes the Beta is out but we are still talking about the end of 2006 for RTM version and you can bet it will cost a premium price for early adopters.

I shan’t be lining Bill’s pockets for some time and certainly not until I know a lot more about what is in Vista (Longhorn) and if it will be worth the expense.
Yes the Beta is out but we are still talking about the end of 2006 for RTM version and you can bet it will cost a premium price for early adopters.

I am going to play with Linux soon … is Avast OK with this OS ::slight_smile:

It’s absolutelly not true that you need stronger machine for Vista.
People around me run it on regular mid range machines and it’s working superfast with all eyecandies.

will it run on
633Mhz
256 ram
64 mb Gforece4 ???

I think it won’t run on this system.
If I remember right Windows Vista requires min 512mb ram :frowning:

Well it’s not a surprise. :slight_smile:
I guess I’m gonna stay with XP :smiley: ;D

Hi, I can’t really understand what wrong with my tunings of Vista: e-mail with Avast works prima, but when starting browser (IE, Opera, Firefox) nothing except white screen comes. When I switch off Avast, everything goes goed. Any sugestions?

First, welcome to forums !

Allow all avast! processes in your firewall… that should do the trick :wink:

Cheers!

EDIT: Btw, where did you get Vista (beta) download ?

Try disabling WebShield and see if it helps.

BTW the Standard Shield will be revamped for Vista. We’ll use a whole new driver (instead of aswMon.sys/aswMon2.sys) to do the scanning. We already have a pre-release version ready…

Cheers
Vlk

I have read somewhere that you can adjust Windows Vista in function of your computer system.

On my old computer a PIII 600 Mhz I was able to run WinXP faster then W2K,…strange indeed.
OK,…the comp. had 640 MB ram,…but still,…

But I guess Windows Vista would be a little bit too heavy to run it properly! It is graphical more intense (more like MacOS X effects) and will require more harddisk to install.
I used this computer for approx. 6 years,…(long time I know)

Now I own a PIV 3.2 Ghz with 2 GB ram,…so I assume Windows Vista will run smooth,…(at least I hope,…you never know what 2006 will bring)

Microsoft will also claim that Windows Vista will be more secure then WinXP SP2,…yeah ok,…what is security really,… I do not think that it will make THAT much of a difference.
If you use a AV, install all updates ect,… you should be ok,…

but again,…why switch to Windows Vista if Windows XP SP2 runs pretty OK.
I know people that own Windows 98 SE and basically they are sometimes “more secured” then a WinXP user. (some new virusses do not work on the 98 systems,…)

Anyway,…its good that Avast! is also guaranteed to work on Vista,… :slight_smile:

Thanks for welcome. Thanks for suggestion to switch off WebShield. Now it works prima. Great product!
PS Vista Beta → Torrent

However OS X does not require a 64MB Video Card to install

OS X Req:
256MB of RAM
2GB of free disk space
PowerPC G3 Processor 233Mhz or faster (G3 450Mhz Recommended)

Yes, it is supposed to be faster than XP on the same hardware. (Likewise XP is claimed to be 15% faster than 98).

I will probably have to get it sometime sooner than I want to (as a systems developer) - however it may end up in a virtual machine (it takes months of spare time to set up my machine with all the stuff I need on it).

I can echo the sentiment that ‘it only seems like yesterday that XP came out’ - but more along the lines ‘it only seems like yesterday I got everything installed, configured and backed up so I could start doing something useful’, and more maintenance and installation is really not desirable at this time (after all, the trap with PCs is spending all the time maintaining rather than using). Looks at the imminent release of .NET2005 and SQL Server 2005 (heavy sigh)

Yeah after all, the trap with PCs is spending all the time maintaining rather than using… we all feel this :stuck_out_tongue:

And you know how to escape that traped feeling, OS X!

  1. no virus worries
  2. when an OS X upgrade is released, there is an UPGRADE option that does not screw everything up

You are joking me Kyle… What screwing up you are talking about ? There is no screw up if you know what you are doing. Of course there are some kids screwing up their machines just because they have no clue what are they doing. They like to install everything and anything, they have no clue what is proper uninstallation procedure in the first place. I’ve met some customers (even 40 and plus years old) and they still think that uninstall means, “go find that application’s folder and erase it completely” ??? ::slight_smile:

Of course there will always be examples like that. I personally never ever had any serious problems with none of my systems. Doesn’t matter if I switched from Windows 98, to ME SE, XP or when I do that with Vista. Everything will be just fine as always. Even setting up a new system is nothing. I do that for living every single day. I back up people’s personal stuff (selective backups which includes mail accounts, mail folders and contents, documents, other personal data etc. etc.), and even when they switch to completely new system with new operating system, they won’t lose a thing. Never, ever. I can not afford to let my customers lose their precious personal data and information of all kind, that’s just unforgivable in this business… of course, if you care about your customers in the first place.

Windows are just fine, and it will be for a long time. Nothing will ever replace these wonderful utilities and I just don’t believe any other system will ever completely replace PCs… just too many people is sooo familiar with it, you can’t change that overnight…

Viruses ? Of course, but that’s why we have these wonderful utilities, and these forums, otherwise we wouldn’t hang in here, right ? OSX is not invulnerable, Unix is not invulnerable… it’s just not many people bother to search for their weak points, but for sure there are many weak points in every OS… there were some in Linux as well… so what ? Should we abandon every OS when we see some flaws ? Firefox stated it’s unbelievable stable and practically untouchable fortress… huh, every single week another update… just like IE, so please… there is nothing invulnerable… everything is vulnerable.

Cheers !