Yay! It is finally here. A Vista RC1 compatible version of the Avast! Antivirus. I just got done uninstalling AVG and I now have Avast 4.7.881 Beta up and running. It looks pretty good so far. Here are the available download links:
- Avast! Home (English) – FREE
- Avast! Professional (English)
- Avast! Home (multilingual) – FREE
- Avast! Professional (multilingual)
After you install and run Avast! for the first time you will receive a compatibility warning, but you can ignore it…the team is working with Microsoft to fix that issue. I also checked the “don’t show me this again” box so that I wouldn’t have to worry about seeing the warning every time I start Windows.
ATI has also updated their video card drivers which is important for you to use if you want the best visual experience possible. I didn’t notice much of a difference from what Vista had automatically installed but I am sure it would affect any gamers out there (I’m not really into gaming).
Hey Ryan, I just found out today that Comodo is slowing my internet connection down – bottlenecking it from 3000kb/s to 1800kb/s!!!
I used your post about speedtest.net to test it out and I can’t believe the difference.
Let me know what you think about that or any advice, thanks!
I’ve never heard of Comodo doing that. Unfortunately I can’t test it out on my systems because I don’t have any XP machines left…I’m all switched over to Vista now. I’ll probably be setting up one of my machines to dual boot with XP next weekend so I can probably test it out then.
Okay cool, I think I’m going to switch back to Zone Alarm free firewall for now with Avast! anti-virus still.
I downloaded Vista RC1 and I am just waiting on my key from MS when the release new ones soon.
you can use your beta 2 serial number in Rc1.