It seems that my problems with AVG Antivirus were not solved in the long run. Whenever I rebooted the computer, the resident shield stopped working until I did a repair reinstall of the program. I figured that was a problem I’d deal with eventually since I didn’t reboot the laptop all that often anyway. (I usually put it into hibernation when I shut it off.) Well, this morning, AVG ran it’s automatic update and as part of that process it game me a blue screen of death! I don’t blame Vista, I blame AVG. After that unpleasant reboot so long AVG. I went hunting and found Free antivirus – avast! 4 Home Edition which is free for home use. And, according to the site, “avast! antivirus fully supports Windows Vista”. So, it’s installed, and running as I expect it to.
Michael Sauers is the Director of Logan Library in Logan, UT. Prior to this he was one of the founding staff and Technology Manager for Do Space in Omaha, NE. After earning his MLS in 1995 from the University at Albany's School of Information Science and Policy Michael spent his first 20 years as a librarian training other librarians in technology along with time as a public library trustee, a bookstore manager for a library friends group, a reference librarian, a technology consultant, and a bookseller. He has written dozens of articles for various journals and magazines and has published 14 books ranging from library technology, blogging, Web design, and an index to a popular horror magazine. In his spare time, he blogs at TravelinLibrarian.info, runs The Collector's Guide to Dean Koontz website at CollectingKoontz.com, takes many, many photos, and typically reads more than 100 books a year.
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2 Replies to “Vista and AVG redux”
Quite a few protection programs still aren’t compatible with Vista; it’s not just AVG. Last time I checked, my current favorite–ZoneAlarm Pro–was, very publicly, not yet compatible with Vista. One reason I’m waiting a little while…
Yeah, the last freely available version of PGP (8.1) was listed as incompatible by the Vista installation program and had to be uninstalled before Vista would install.
I’m not officially recommending upgrading to anyone (I’ll get to why in a later post) but I figured I’d share so you can all get an idea of what’s involved.
Quite a few protection programs still aren’t compatible with Vista; it’s not just AVG. Last time I checked, my current favorite–ZoneAlarm Pro–was, very publicly, not yet compatible with Vista. One reason I’m waiting a little while…
Yeah, the last freely available version of PGP (8.1) was listed as incompatible by the Vista installation program and had to be uninstalled before Vista would install.
I’m not officially recommending upgrading to anyone (I’ll get to why in a later post) but I figured I’d share so you can all get an idea of what’s involved.