Where's my x64 anti-virus program?

Source article

Customers testing the Windows XP x64 Edition have been getting startling error messages that anti-virus protection from at least two vendors—Symantec and McAfee—is not yet available. A huge security problem for those early adaptors.

when using Symantec products you can get an error like: "Symantec currently does not sell any consumer products that are certified to be compatible with 64-bit processors and operating systems."

The company said its Symantec AntiVirus Corporate Edition 10.0 will eventually support Windows XP Professional x64 Edition and Windows Server 2003 x64 Editions, but no timeline for full support was provided.

Comments

Ouch!

May 4, 2005 by Chris Charlton

Very bad news for x64-ers.

not certified

May 4, 2005 by Lindsay Gregory

Perhaps the "not certified to be compatible" is the typical caution that means it will work but they just won't certify that it will....

not certified

May 4, 2005 by Lindsay Gregory

No, I didn't read the whole article.

Symantec said it would be "monitoring the adoption of x64 very closely" but confirmed that virus protection on x64 was not yet available.

Not just "not certified" but "not available". That's a worry:-(

There is a solution!

May 5, 2005 by Nigel Gale

I have been running x64 for a few months now through RC1 and RC2, (am currently waiting for my final version disk). I use Avast 4.6 which runs well on x64 - www.avast.com. When I contacted Symantec they couldn't have been more disinterested!

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