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The elephant in Windows 7’s room

The elephant in Windows 7’s room

Thrax Robert Hallock 15 Jan, 2009 at 10:46am ET Article published in Tech

windows7Microsoft blogger Brandon LeBlanc has updated the official Windows development blog with a list of anti-virus applications that currently work on Windows 7.

Three security vendors have taken the build we released to developers at the PDC in October and have developed solutions available today that work with the Windows 7 Beta. The following anti-virus solutions are available via Windows 7 Security Provider page:

  • Symantec offers the Norton 360 3.0 Beta which works on the Windows 7 Beta
  • AVG offers AVG Internet Security and AVG Anti-Virus that works with the Windows 7 Beta
  • Kaspersky is offering a technical preview of Kaspersky Anti-Virus for Windows 7.

I wonder how long it will take for someone to jack a virus long thought dead into 7. Maybe we should experiment: anyone have copies of NIMDA, Code Red, Slammer, Sasser or Melissa? 😉

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Comments

  1. QCH
    15 Jan 2009 ~ 12:47pm QCH I installed Avira AV on my install of Windows 7... works fine (as far as I know).
  2. MachineDog
    15 Jan 2009 ~ 5:33pm MachineDog I've downloaded windows 7 from microsoft's website (which went faster for me than multiple torrents I tried) and attempted to install it on a second hard drive and was faced with an error about halfway through "Expanding data", any ideas? This is happening on both the 32 and 64 bit versions I downloaded and the hard drive appears to be fine.
  3. Snarkasm
    15 Jan 2009 ~ 5:57pm Snarkasm How much space is on the hard drive?
  4. MachineDog
    15 Jan 2009 ~ 6:41pm MachineDog About 75GB, just formatted it.
  5. GnomeWizardd
    16 Jan 2009 ~ 7:26am GnomeWizardd agreed with Qch Avira works fine for me on 7
  6. QCH
    16 Jan 2009 ~ 11:20am QCH Thanks GnomeWiz... nice to have backup. ^5
  7. Thrax
    16 Jan 2009 ~ 11:39am Thrax We contacted the makers of Avast yesterday to see if we could get virus samples to bork 7 with.

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