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Subject: Re: Windows x64 - what are the risks?

Author: Mike Byrne

Date: 09:07:34 12/31/05

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On December 31, 2005 at 12:02:50, deep.thought wrote:

>>Essentially , make sure you have all the drivers before installing.  Norton does
>>not have a 64 bit version yet -
>
>Yes it does.  Norton (Symantec's) works just fine
>
>http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/ent-security.nsf/9d94c8571a91ba4788256bf3007f62b5/8dbcbad47721995988256ccd0004389d?OpenDocument&src=bar_sch_nam&seg=ag
>
>My Canon N670U scanner and EPSON R200 printer won't work on Win64 (no drivers).
>So I attach them to a VMWARE guest running Windows 2003 32-bit and I use them
>from there.

I stand corrected -  I have been running OS 64 bit since February so I gave up
waiting for Norton and to the free anti-virus Avast - they were the first with
64 bit antivirus aoftware, and its free.

http://www.avast.com/



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