Windows Vista Security Software Providers

We recommend that you install security software to help protect your computer from viruses and other security threats, and that you keep your security software up to date. The companies listed below provide security software that is compatible with Windows Vista. Just click the company name to see the Windows Vista-compatible product they offer. Important: Before you install antivirus software, check to make sure you don't already have an antivirus product on your computer. If you do, be sure to remove the product you don't want before you install the new one. It can cause problems on your computer to have two different antivirus products installed at the same time.

Allchin Suggests Vista Won't Need Antivirus

During a telephone conference with reporters yesterday, outgoing Microsoft co-president Jim Allchin, while touting the new security features of Windows Vista, which was released to manufacturing yesterday, told a reporter that the system's new lockdown features are so capable and thorough that he was comfortable with his own seven-year-old son using Vista without antivirus software installed.

Antivirus Software for Vista

It seems that the latest batch of AV software is quite inconsistent when it comes to Vista, but it is especially important to secure Vitsa and tie it down in order to take full advantage of all the other high-tech security features built right into Vista.

Microsoft's own antivirus fails to secure Vista

Microsoft's own antivirus software, Live OneCare, is unable to fully protect Vista users against viruses, and one of security firm McAfee's antivirus software packages also fails to protect users, according to independent research released Friday.

Antivirus Software for Windows Vista Beta 2

CA is offering a free beta version of eTrust EZ Antivirus for Windows Vista Beta 2 users. The one-year trial is available for download on CA's Web site.

Is Vista security a selling point?

An assortment of new security features in Windows Vista will help many consumers become "secure enough," but businesses are unlikely to abandon their current levels of additional, backup security if they adopt the new operating system, some experts say.

Is security really Vista's biggest selling point?

Give a Softie only one minute to make a pitch for upgrading to Windows Vista, and s/he most likely would focus on the new and improved security in the product.

Vista: an inconvenient security

Microsoft's pending "Vista" desktop OS release has a number of "in your face" security (in the PC sense of that word) features that can't be ignored on even the most cursory review. These may or may not prove effective in use, but certainly seem a little over the top in terms of the usual security trade-off in which it's recognised that every security step or feature written into a process is also an impediment to effective business process execution.