Anyone using AVG Free ?

[John E]

Just got around to installing Security Essentials on my Win7 partition this morning. First impressions are that it's noticeably slower than OS-X (which is currently running without antivirus) but considerably faster than XP and AVG which I was using previously. Thanks for the tip.

[dglienna]

First impressions are that it's noticeably slower than OS-X

I wonder about the hardware that Windows 7 is running on. I can imagine anything (comparably priced)being faster than my laptop (with AV)

[John E]

Both OS's are running on the same physical machine David. It's a new Mac Mini that I configured for dual booting. I'd recommend this to anyone who wants to run Windows and OS-X, The only caveat is that Apple doesn't officially support more than 2 partitions on a Boot Camped drive, so if you want your data on a separate partition (as I did) you end up having to buy an external drive.

[dglienna]

Hmm. If Windows 7 can see that drive, let it scan it. It'd be interesting to see the results.

Just because you don't *have* AV software running doesn't mean that you don't have an infection.

Of course, problems are always introduced by elevating a command (with your pw). Same thing built into Windows 7.

Still haven't seen any infections on any Windows 7 boxes. A friend thinks that the bad guys just need more time, but the underlying code is baked in, since Windows 2008 came out.

[John E]

Just because you don't *have* AV software running doesn't mean that you don't have an infection.

Quite.... as someone who's had several infections over the years on my Windows boxes I must admit to being very very sceptical about the naivety of Mac users who all seem to think Macs are inherently "immune" from viruses. Personally I'd prefer to install an AV utility and not have the worry - but is there even anything available for OS-X? I remember being laughed at when I innocently asked on a Linux forum whether there were any AV packages available for Linux.