Antivirus software (windows) question

cato988cato988
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in General Discussion edited January 2014
To my dismay, I have to put XP on my macbook pro. I will not be using XP for anything but required tasks that should not get me viruses, but of course... you seem to get viruses with windows even when the computer is off.



I'm in college and to use the internet, everyone is required to download Sophos Anti-virus. Will this anti-virus protection be enough to protect XP and my pro from viruses? If not, what is a good anti virus software for XP?



Im not really going to be browsing the internet, and wont be getting viruses by way of porn or anything stupid like that. The most internet that I will be on is if I decided to play online video games such as Battlefield 2 that only accessed the internet through the games server. I need XP for a course I'm taking and the course doesnt require any online work with windows. I can do all that with leopard.



thanks,

Cato

Comments

  • Reply 1 of 5
    teedoff087teedoff087 Posts: 348member
    I prefer avast! for my windows desktop, but Sophos is pretty solid. You'll be fine, especially considering you won't be browsing with IE.
  • Reply 2 of 5
    cato988cato988 Posts: 307member
    thank you good sir!
  • Reply 3 of 5
    buddhabuddha Posts: 386member
    sounds like that program should do the trick. if you ever get into situations where you're downloading a lot of files, want email files scanned etc. go with nod32, it's awesome.
  • Reply 4 of 5
    nvidia2008nvidia2008 Posts: 9,262member
    Yes. Avast.com is absolutely brilliant. Norton/Symantec, Trend, AVG, are seem to be very, very bloated.



    Run Avast, leave all the updating and On-Access-Protection turned on, turn off "VRDB generation", and you're all set.



    WinXP2Pro is manageable in this situation. Use Parallels and manage your Windows images.
  • Reply 5 of 5
    nvidia2008nvidia2008 Posts: 9,262member
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Cato988 View Post


    To my dismay, I have to put XP on my macbook pro. I will not be using XP for anything but required tasks that should not get me viruses, but of course... you seem to get viruses with windows even when the computer is off...



    Ha ha... I don't think the computer can get viruses if it is off. Only if the viruses are already lurking around on cellphones, routers, harddisk, network, email, waiting to pounce when the computer is turned on.
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