Vista and AntiVirus Apps

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I’m working on a project that requires my installing Vista and Office 2007 (on a computer with no important data and programs, of course). Installing Vista went fine. Installing anti-virus was a nightmare. We tried to install the trial versions just to get going… and Microsoft offered four choices. Not one worked. After fiddling with the computer and Vista’s settings, Norton got farther than the rest.
BUT. It won’t update. We followed the instructions to address the problem and Norton won’t update. When we make the changes and try again, it says there are no updates to download (even though it was NEVER updated). Back to square one.
So, I cleaned out all traces of Norton and the other anti-virus programs. Yet, Norton continued to appear as the active firewall. How? Its clock has been cleaned and we deleted all remnants that don’t delete with Norton’s own uninstall app. We reinstalled Vista and started over.
First anti-virus app I installed… it worked. Lesson learned: Install the AV first thing before installing or customizing apps. Get it working, then install everything else.
Better yet, don’t upgrade to Vista unless you have a new computer.

5 thoughts on “Vista and AntiVirus Apps”

  1. Try Avast Anti-Virus it works well with Vista Ultimate and Leave Windows Defender up and running all the time even during installations. That way Vista keeps track of new installs and so does Avast.

  3. Hi–

    Interesting. I’ve upgraded all of my XP boxes and had no problems what so ever with Trend Micro’s antivirus. I did try installing McAfee on one of them, but it does not support the 64-bit version of Vista and would not install at all.

    In fact, most of my problems with Vista revolve around the lack of 64 bit support :-(.

    eyt*

  4. I use Trend on all my computers. I think Trend only had a problem with Vista because Norton (installed first) was in the way. Obviously something was screwy about the whole thing.

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