[iluvmypowerbook]

NAV for window$ will not install onto XP in VPC because (according to Symantec Tech Support) the ability to install over a network enviroment (which NAV thinks it is doing) has been disabled deliberately by Symantec.

I will not be checking email in VPC of course, but from time to time will be accessing the internet. So I want to install an anti-virus software for added safety.

Which anti-virus software will actually install into VPC?

[Forte]

Well, I'm not 100% sure, as I don't actually use VPC myself, but perhaps you could give one of these two free apps a try? (At the very least, with these, it won't cost anything to find out if they work)

http://free.grisoft.com/freeweb.php/doc/2/ - AVG Anti-Virus
http://www.avast.com/eng/avast_4_home.html - Avast AV

[Sven G]

AVG definitely works in VPC. Also, if you should have NAV for Mac (or Virex: not sure if it scans for PC viruses?), and your VPC virtual drive is formatted in FAT32 (i.e., mountable through VPC itself: NTFS and EXT2/EXT3 don't work, yet, sadly), then, probably, you could just mount the VPC drive on the desktop from time to time and scan it manually with the Mac antivirus software (as long as it supports PC virus definitions, as in NAV 9)...

[iluvmypowerbook]

Originally posted by Sven G:
AVG definitely works in VPC. Also, if you should have NAV for Mac (or Virex: not sure if it scans for PC viruses?), and your VPC virtual drive is formatted in FAT32 (i.e., mountable through VPC itself: NTFS and EXT2/EXT3 don't work, yet, sadly), then, probably, you could just mount the VPC drive on the desktop from time to time and scan it manually with the Mac antivirus software (as long as it supports PC virus definitions, as in NAV 9)...

Thank you.

I do have NAV 9 so I am doing the mount drive technique. You just saved me a few extra bucks.