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by sambhe

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Guys,
IS it possible to have antivirus to be loaded only once and can work in both the operating systems in case of dual boot system.

Is any antivirus software for windows XP available. Its not available at my place atleast.

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vijay

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by mdp716

Two questions

First answer, yes it is possible but only if your virus program is capable of reading all partitions in use and you scan from that one O.S. for both O.S. - bear in mind that while in the second (unprotected) O.S. that any files you download or get from e-mail will not be checked until you scan again from the other O.S.

Second answer, yes, McAfee has virus software for XP Home and Professional - see http://www.mcafee-at-home.com/products/virusscan/default.asp?m=1

by thechas

Since the anti-virus software needs to work differently with each OS, and, the boot process takes your system down to nearly blank, you need to load the software during each boot in order to be protected. If you only have it installed for one OS, you will have no protection in the other OS.

If the partition where you have installed the AV software is visible to both OS's, it may be possible to have each OS use the same installation of the software.

I also believe that Norton AV will workwith XP, but you need to install the Windows XP updates, and some patches from Symantec.

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