Windows 98 anti-virus software

albertross_2

http://www.avast.com/eng/download-avast-home.html
http://www.bitdefender.com/site/Main/view/Download-Free-Products.html

The second one is a good scanner, but I think the free version is on demand only, not resident. Avast is resident.

Stompa

Older Windows 98 compatible versions of Zone Alarm are available here:

http://download.zonelabs.com/bin/free/information/zaav/releaseHistory.html

bud-miser

Hmm... quite a diversity of opinion.

I have all the Zone Alarm updates up to the time when the new ones became non-compatible.

The Spanish Inquisition is no more. It is deceased. Gone to meet its maker. It no longer pines for the fjords...

albertross_2

Is this a 2 minute thread, or the full half hour?

Quasar

The oldest of my lappies dates from 2000 and has 98 on it. I also find 98 a much better system and I felt I could navigate it and control it more easily. Recently I have uninstalled Norton from it and installed AVG, AD-aware, Spybot and Sygate. It's a slow computer, I think only 128 Ram, but it still works fine and I use it as a backup.

Shame that Microsoft will eventually phase it out. XP is not its equal, in my opinion.

Stompa

Quasar wrote:

Shame that Microsoft will eventually phase it out. XP is not its equal, in my opinion.

In what way?

If you switch XP to classic mode it looks and feels pretty much like 98, but is much more reliable.

Rex_Mundi

Actually, MS have already stopped support for W98 (last July was the last update).

As far as XP.............I think that MS have finally got this to a decent OS now. There's no comparison in reality between W98 and XP. The capabilities of XP far outweighs W98. I still use my old W98 machine a lot, but the restrictions I come accross keep forcing me to transfer data onto the XP machine to be able to work on it properly.

Nex0

bud-miser wrote:

Does anyone know of any virus killer that will run on W98?

Microsoft seems hell-bent on torpedoing W98 by abandoning online support (with the idea of forcing me to use a newer operating system) and has been followed down this dastardly route by Grisoft whose AVG virus killer I have installed currently.

It's thought that, as time goes by, W98 will become ever more prone to viral attack and my system will end up running very slowly/backwards!

Help!

Sorry if this topic has been raised before.

Grab a copy of norton antivirus 2006 or 2005 if you can find one.

The 2006 edition comes with 2005 and that will run on 98.

http://www.symantec.com/en/uk/home_homeoffice/products/sysreq.jsp?pcid=is&pvid=nav2006

You can get it for 17.99 at play with free delivery

http://www.play.com/Games/PC/4-/735196/Norton_AntiVirus_2006/Product.html

You should be ok with this 2005 edition as well and thats only £8.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/NORTON-INTERNET-SECURITY-2005-LEGIT-ANTIVIRUS-FIREWALL_W0QQitemZ110034018746QQihZ001QQcategoryZ3805QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Rex_Mundi

But Avast is totally free, and works perfectly well with W98. AVG is also free and works perfectly well with W98.

ManAtHome

I moved over to Avast on my Win98 system - AVG did state they were dropping support and short time after that it appeared to be downloading the full program rather than just updates (every day was over 3mb and needed a re-boot).

Curiously enough had the same (with AVG) on Win2k - think it started a couple of weeks later, but maybe my usage patterns. No change on XP though, just the usual smallish updates.