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zoolander
May 30th, 2009, 09:38 AM
Looks like unless it's on Microsoft's list of antivirus companies, Vista no longer recognizes your antivirus software and now gives you a warning that you have none protecting your computer... must have been picked up in their last update.
Just checked my version of AVIRA, it is fully operational; so I turned off the notification and picked the option that I will monitor my own antivirus software.
Anyone else getting this? Or am I missing something?
rcjeff
May 30th, 2009, 12:32 PM
i'm running vista ultimate 64 bit sp2 with avira on one of my machines and it detects it fine...
mark_in_2k
May 30th, 2009, 03:27 PM
With Vista SP2 I get "Avira is not compatible with Vista" and I have the options of closing the program, or continue to use it, which I do and it works fine. I'm sure Avira will update it soon.
ShadowVlican
May 30th, 2009, 10:24 PM
still works fine on SP1
infamouskid
May 30th, 2009, 11:16 PM
working fine for me. try downloading the latest version.
Oversized Rooster
May 30th, 2009, 11:29 PM
You can always disable any notifications from the security center. Easy solution.
RageOfFury
May 30th, 2009, 11:52 PM
Avira Antivir version 8 isn't compatible with Vista SP2. You need to upgrade to version 9.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/969707
zoolander
May 31st, 2009, 07:10 PM
Avira Antivir version 8 isn't compatible with Vista SP2. You need to upgrade to version 9.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/969707

I thought that might be the issue when it gave me a popup a few weeks ago to update to the latest version which I ignored because I have it tweaked, ironically, so it won't display ad popups, lol.
I see I was hesistant for no reason as by googling, this works for version 9:
http://www.tipsfor.us/2009/03/18/avira-antivir-updates-to-version-9-make-it-more-usable/

Thanks ROF, Vista 64bit Security Centre now recognizes I have antivirus ON.