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Consumer Products => Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security (legacy Pro Antivirus, Internet Security, Premier) => Topic started by: vindo on October 21, 2008, 08:06:24 AM

Title: 64 bit vista
Post by: vindo on October 21, 2008, 08:06:24 AM

 Is avast ok to install on new 64 bit vista ?Dell machine

Title: Re: 64 bit vista
Post by: RejZoR on October 21, 2008, 09:00:43 AM

avast! works perfectly on 64bit systems. In fact avast! was one of the few that supported 64bit systems first.

Title: Re: 64 bit vista
Post by: Lisandro on October 21, 2008, 02:33:59 PM

Some features are not available though (like boot time scanning...).

Title: Re: 64 bit vista
Post by: cooljays on October 22, 2008, 12:53:43 AM

 ;D daft question why will boot scan not work with 64 bit
Is this the same with 64 bit xp??
Ta  ;D

Title: Re: 64 bit vista
Post by: Lisandro on October 22, 2008, 01:58:36 AM

Quote from: cooljays on October 22, 2008, 12:53:43 AM

;D daft question why will boot scan not work with 64 bit

They need to develop the drives to be loaded and this is quite a huge work...

Quote from: cooljays on October 22, 2008, 12:53:43 AM

Is this the same with 64 bit xp??

Yes, on XP 64bits the boot time isn't available (yet ???).