O/T Windows 7 SP1 (for x64 systems) - install problems

[Kev_Mc]

I think if you have good (paid for) AV you never have problems and also no one else in the house is allowed on this machine which is a £2k laptop with i7 processor and ludicrously quick!!!!! 

I did have a paid version of AVG, but there were problems between it and the firewall, so I had to switch. Was going to go for Kapersky (sp) but that was incompatible with the Firewall too. Everything (apart from SP1) is working at the moment, so reluctant to change. Downloading SP1 from Technet as I type 

[Norfolk Jim]

Worth trying ESET - excellent stuff

[Drac]

I personally find paying for basic antivirus software a bit over the top nowadays. Avira/AVG/Avast is good enough in my humble opinion and not that different from the non-free products. What helps is a good maintenance regime: keep all your software up to date (i.e. use Secunia PSI - free again), don't install crap, use web browser with adblock (i.e. firefox + ADP).

Unless you connect directly to public internet (wifi at starbucks, 3G), personal firewalls - sometimes offered as part of your paid antivirus suite, are also not that useful.

However, it is entirely your decision of how much protection technology you use (the more of this, the more complexity and maintenance problems you will have as well). I'm a security specialist and use linux for internet banking, windows 7 + free avast + firefox + adblock plus for regular daily webbrowsing etc. So far it was sufficient to stop pretty much everything.

[Kev_Mc]

A quick update on this - finally got around to buying some DVD writable disks so I could put SP1 on there. Ran the upgrade from there and got exactly the same thing.

Looks like I'll be trashing the PC and re-installing from scratch...

[faceplant]

just doing a 3000 seat w7sp1 deployment and have never seen this even when we did the original builds.

AV suggestion; use the microsoft stuff.  I was using corporate mcafee and bitdefender (seperatley) and neither have ever picked up as much as the windows stuff does. I ended up having to exclude all my CEH and CHFI and other dodgy folders so the tools didnt get scrubbed.  MS's AV is on the ball as they're are not writing 'happychristmas' messages in viruses to other AV houses like symantec and mcafee do.

[Kev_Mc]

Finally got this sorted - uninstalled the Avast AV, then SP1 went on with no issues.

Am trying Micorsoft's AV as recommended by faceplant.