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Personally, I find VMware Fusion better than Parallels. I only have 2 GB of RAM on my laptop (mid-2007 MacBook Pro); so, it is slow sometimes from swapping stuff to and from the hard drive, but it works for the rare times I need to open a Windows program.
All Boot Camp affects is limiting available hard drive space because you need a dedicated partition. You need to allocate however much space you want Windows to be able to access. A big thing to note is that Windows will not be able to read the Mac partition of your hard drive under Boot Camp, since Windows will only read FAT and NTFS. Mac OS will be able to read the Windows partition (but not write if it is NTFS, which does provide better performance for Windows.) VMware and Parallels can present your hard drive as a network drive to Windows; so, you can use Mac-side files.
Parallels (and VMware) still need a copy of Windows, but you don't have to have a physical CD, the .iso will work fine. Boot Camp will need a physical Windows CD, and you also have to burn a drivers disk. Parallels and VMware are also able to run a copy of Windows installed with Boot Camp so that you don't need to reboot.
Regardless of what you do, Windows will still be susceptible to viruses. There is slightly more risk of harm with Boot Camp, since Windows has low-level hardware access. Either way you should download something like ClamWin so you have virus protection.
Norton AntiVirus 2005 is the last version to officially support Windows 98, though please don't do that to yourself. Opinions of the current state of Norton aside, 2005 is bang in the middle of when Norton crippled people's systems.
If you want a lightweight, decent, easy to use, and still supported AV, use ClamWin (based on ClamAV). To my knowledge it's the only one to still support Windows 98.
ClamAV has some respect between others AV, probably will never be so good as a paid solution, but in many cases can do his job (See Effectiveness).
I use at my Windows (ClamWin for Windows) computer and it's good, when I need to scan something it's very fast and when need is effective. But the main problem of it, is that ClamAV don't have a real time scan, this means you need to scan your disk periodically and scan suspect files yourself, by default ClamAV don't do that.
But more important than have any AV you need to know how to protect yourself, just don't get out, clicking on everything and downloading anything that has a green button. That's the best defense...
Scan it with ClamWin, an open source antivirus. Make sure the torrent you use was uploaded at least a few months ago, to ensure the virus definitions have been made in ClamWin. Find a decent tracker - e.g. Demonoid, where torrents with viruses/trojans are identified and removed quite quickly (long before the 3 months have passed as previously recommended).
it donsnt have active protection, but for scanning, checkout clamwin its free and has picked up a number of things that both MS def. and malwarebytes missed, tho it works best with a second antivirus
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You could try Clamwin or Bitdefender. They have worked for me in the past.
Bitdefender and Clamwin
If you just want an on-demand antivirus then I suggest using the excellent Clam AntiVirus, which is on-demand only. You'll want to use the ClamWin GUI for it, unless you're comfortable using the command line. No more install/uninstall/reboot time wasting.
>do you have reccomendations? i didn't see anything on their site. besides Immunet which didn't seem to be open source.
I haven't used http://www.clamwin.com/ for awhile but thats the only one I know of. Sorry.
The Windows estates my clients operate just use Defender (which is fine by itself) or Sophos and other commercial products if they want a more holistic policy-controlled endpoint protection solution.
>are you stating, you don't believe it uploads samples at all? Or are you stating that you do not understand my question?
Doh, brain<->finger disconnected.
To my knowledge, clamAV doesn't upload anything. It only downloads updates. The signatures clamAV has is compiled by the commercial backers and open-source feeds (so they don't need your files)
In case someone stumbles across this thread from Google in the future: as of 2019, most free AVs that still "support" legacy Windows require XP SP3 or later.
However, ClamWin (on-demand scanner) + Clam Sentinel (real-time module) still support all versions of Windows, 98 and newer.
It's an obscure but serviceable Windows port of Cisco's ClamAV antivirus. However, it is seriously lacking in features. Therefore, I would only recommend it on systems for which no modern antivirus is available.
This would depend on your definition of reliable. In the security world, the answer is "no" simply because ClamWin doesn't have a real-time shield and instead relies on a reactive approach of doing scans after the fact (a malware infection event). This means that your computer could get a malware infection and remain infected for however long until you decide to do a scan with ClamWin.
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This is what I currently recommend. Its lightweight and works well.
https://www.avira.com/en/avira-free-antivirus
Also, consider this one.
http://www.clamwin.com/ + http://sourceforge.net/projects/clamsentinel/
I noticed you didn't mention Clamwin, am wondering if you ever heard of it and what your opinion on it is. I use it without a problem on all my PCs, the updates are pretty frequent. I never had a big problem with viruses so it must be doing something right?
The Microsoft article should work for Vista/7.
Malwarebytes should at least disable it if not remove it:
Some detailed instructions here (it involves editing the registry, do so at your own risk):
http://www.ehow.com/how_6133926_remove-surabaya-virus.html#ixzz15eIwV7CX
I haven't used Clamwin in a long time, but a lot of removal sites say Clamwin has the ability to remove it:
http://www.clamwin.com/content/view/18/46/
"Install Clamwin (but don't use proxy) Update the latest anti-virus definition files. At the tools menu, set the preferences to remove virus. Start Clamwin and scan all hard drives for viruses. "
heres what your going to do, you need to grab a portable anti virus, heres a link to one ive used, http://www.clamwin.com/, then your going to run it update it on a usb stick, once thats done, boot your laptop into safe mode, and run the anti virus
edit: also get rid of avast and mcafee when your done there both overated, use microsoft security essentials, its free if you have a legit version of windows and is very nofus
Aren't there open source antivirus? Antivirus doesn't have to suck.
I don't use antivirus myself but normals around me always managed to accidentally install viruses on their computer. So I installed ClamWin for them.
Depends, do you care what is on your VM? Are you going to have it connected to the internet?
If you said yes to both, then you will need an AV installed on the VM. You can install a free version like Clamwin or AVG.
When using windows, Lavasoft Ad-Aware, Spybot Search & Destroy, a good virus scanner such as ClamWin and a good firewall (the windows one is garbage) are a must. You need to have them, install them and use them--often--to keep your computer free from infection. Periodically re-installing windows also helps.
Alternatively you may either disconnect the computer from the Internet or use a better OS.
If you can't find an acceptable antivirus program for all your computers, you may want to consider using Hostsman on one or more of them. It's freeware that can protect your computers from malicious websites on a dns level by automatically downloading the MVPS Hosts list which is very effective in my experience. It doesn't protect you in the same way that antivirus software would but it's better than nothing.
Microsoft Security Essentials on 10 computers and ClamWin on the rest might work for you.