Anti Virus with Dual Boot

[wez99]

Just put Win 7 on my computer, dual booting with Vista. My question is, do I have to have another AV prog on the Win 7 partition?
Thankyou, that is all!

 

[wez99]

Thanks for all your help, I don't know whose advice to take!

 

[Mantel]

Is any program you installed under vista available when you boot w7. I guess not.

 

[kiran111]

Lets put in a nutshell here, if you can't see the anti virus logo and you're new partition then yes you should use a separate anti virus but if you can scan all your files and folders then obviously you don't.

Hope that wasn't too confusing for ya.

 

[ManCityFC]

If you are dual booting, then whichever OS you boot into should have Anti Virus, unless you are not going on the web on one of them (i.e. a clean lean gaming machine), but I would still install Avast on all OS's personally.

 

[wez99]

I put Avast on any way, all is ok, just a touch unsure initially as had problems with running 2 AV progs together.
Thanks