AntiVirus for 64-Bit Windos XP Pro ? ? ? ?

[Big Rick Rock]

Ok,


So I got a powerhouse of a Laptop at a great price. The catch is that it came with Vista... Less than two weeks later I was fed up with fucking Vista and wanted OUT.

I wanted to go back to XP, but was repeatedly told that XP would not read all of the 4G of RAM in the Laptop. So I opted to go with 64-Bit XP Pro so that the 64-Bit system would be able to read all of my RAM.

Now I can't install any antivirus on it!

I own a license for PCTools and another one for Norton 360... Neither of them is now compatible with my system!

What is a good Antivirus to get for this OS now? I'm affraid of my LapTop catching a cold.

 

[puddlemonkey]

Don't believe the hype, Vista is fine. I went from XP to Vista, I actually prefer Vista.

 

[chris302001]

xp will read all 4 gigs, after sp3, my 4 gig machine running 32 bit xp reads it fine. 64 bit is garbage for most users because of incompatibility. Just go back to 32 bit.

 

[puddlemonkey]

xp will read all 4 gigs, after sp3, my 4 gig machine running 32 bit xp reads it fine. 64 bit is garbage for most users because of incompatibility. Just go back to 32 bit.

64 > 32

 

[chris302001]

64 > 32

64 is just a hassle.

 

[chris302001]

Deamscenes in Vista works nicely with 4 gigs though......the rollercoaster makes me dizzy as fuck tho

 

[Big Rick Rock]

So no Antivirus for this machine?

I already have the 64-Bit version and there aint much I don about it now mang. I'm using all of my 32-Bit license on my other systems.

64-Bit seems to run fast as hell, but thats probably because it is a fresh install. I LOVE a fresh install!
When I got the machine back it had nothing on the Desktop but the "Recycle Bin" icon. Feels like slipping the panties off a virgin's hip.

 

[Cutiebaby]

May I ask what is so wrong with vista?

I recently got a new lappy top as well, it has vista. I have not had any issues at all, and actually don't mind the vista.
Why all the hate?

 

[chris302001]

So no Antivirus for this machine?

I already have the 64-Bit version and there aint much I don about it now mang. I'm using all of my 32-Bit license on my other systems.

64-Bit seems to run fast as hell, but thats probably because it is a fresh install. I LOVE a fresh install!
When I got the machine back it had nothing on the Desktop but the "Recycle Bin" icon. Feels like slipping the panties off a virgin's hip.

Fresh installs are a beautiful thing....especially with the kind of hardware your rockin. I'm sure there's an antivirus, just gotta find it.

 

[Big Rick Rock]

May I ask what is so wrong with vista?

I recently got a new lappy top as well, it has vista. I have not had any issues at all, and actually don't mind the vista.
Why all the hate?

I don't know whats wrong with it either. It just crashed on me a coupel of times per day, and then eventually 7x in one night and then 10x the next day. I had to put my system on the shelf.
The blue screen of death and wasted work just kept attacking my progress. File after file just kept getting lost in between the progress being saved. Rough drafts of e-mails and even PMs were lost just seconds before I clicked the "Send" button. A error blue screen telling me to so stuff to fix my system and that it was shutting down kept appearing... It was too much.

I will go back to Vista one day when they fix it all. Till then I am happy be living in XP.

 

[Cutiebaby]

I don't know whats wrong with it either. It just crashed on me a coupel of times per day, and then eventually 7x in one night and then 10x the next day. I had to put my system on the shelf.
The blue screen of death and wasted work just kept attacking my progress. File after file just kept getting lost in between the progress being saved. Rough drafts of e-mails and even PMs were lost just seconds before I clicked the "Send" button. A error blue screen telling me to so stuff to fix my system and that it was shutting down kept appearing... It was too much.

I will go back to Vista one day when they fix it all. Till then I am happy be living in XP.

I love Xp and even put up a stink when buying my lap top, I wanted a new one that had Xp on it instead of vista as the stories that I had heard were terrible. Well in the price range that I had with me cash and the fact that I needed the pc the day before I bought it I had no choice. I settled for vista and figured I would cross switching when I hit it..Though I have had this lap top for a while now and vista has been fine for me

 

[Razorguns]

I love Xp and even put up a stink when buying my lap top, I wanted a new one that had Xp on it instead of vista as the stories that I had heard were terrible. Well in the price range that I had with me cash and the fact that I needed the pc the day before I bought it I had no choice. I settled for vista and figured I would cross switching when I hit it..Though I have had this lap top for a while now and vista has been fine for me

Vista is more than fine - as long as you get the service packs and more than 1 gig of memory.

Few people only hear the old perception and run away. I put my vista through cpu hell, and it eats it all up every day.

r

 

[the_alcatraz]

If you have a dual or quad core, multi processor with more than 1 GB of RAM and 2.0 GHz and enough cache, you can run vista and be quite happy with it.

Vista slows down your computer and you will feel it if you're looking at a 1.8 MHz and a shit processor. But with a good enough computer, processor and RAM, Vista is beautiful.

It had a shitload of bugs when it first came out, most were removed though.

Regardless, I'd go with Symantec for antivirus.