anti-virus for Win Me ?
 

scbs29 wrote:

For my own amusement and to play old games I have installed Win Me
into VMware player.
Does anyone know of a free anti-virus product that is still available
for Win Me ?
It is unlikely that it will be connected to the internet but best to
make sure.

You should have posted (or cross-posted) your question to a win-98
newsgroup. (but not win-me, because those groups are dead).

Norton Anti-virus 2002 functions perfectly fine as an AV program for
win-9x/me. Once you install it, you can download something called the
"intelligent updater" file which will give NAV-2002 the most current
symantec scan engine and viral definitions.

I can post download links for Norton System Works 2002 (which includes
NAV 2002) if you want - just ask.

Once you install NAV 2002, it will accept viral definition updates for a
year. After that, if you want it to accept new definition files, you'll
have to re-install it (and delete the file "catalog.livesubscribe") to
regain another year of free use.

All that said, you really don't need to run any antivirus program on
win-9x/me systems. Not today, and not for the past 7 years. Because
there has been no malware in circulation (either browser-based or
file-based) that runs on win-9x/me systems. All windoze malware for the
past 7 years is designed only for win-NT based systems. They have no
capacity to recover from errors when they execute on win-9x/me systems.

anti-virus for Win Me ?
 

On Sun, 03 Aug 2014 01:47:00 +0000, Dustin wrote:


That's insane and quite stupid advice. There is malware still
circulating that will make win9x it's home....

Just par for the course with VG. He's a forger as well with the guy dot
com spoofed address.

Thane

anti-virus for Win Me ?
 

Dustin wrote:

Norton Anti-virus 2002 functions perfectly fine as an AV program
for win-9x/me. Once you install it, you can download something
called the "intelligent updater" file which will give NAV-2002
the most current symantec scan engine and viral definitions.

Er, no.. no it won't.

Won't what?

Update the definitions, or the scan engine?

If you say "scan engine", then you should take your foot out of your
mouth and read this thread:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!ms...M/fmS20JfvBGwJ

Subject: McAfee or Norton on New Notebook?
Date: Sun, 07 Aug 2005 14:32:23 +0100
Newsgroups: alt.comp.virus

Every time I update NAV 2002 with Intelligent Updater, the various DLL's
mentioned in that thread also get updated.

All windoze malware for the past 7 years is designed only for
win-NT based systems. They have no capacity to recover from
errors when they execute on win-9x/me systems.

That's insane and quite stupid advice. There is malware still
circulating that will make win9x it's home....

Name one.

Every file that I get via spam email (that claims to be a document, a
ticket receipt, a fax, a voice mail, etc) but is instead an executable,
I usually run just for the hell of it on my win-9x system - and watch it
fail with some "this program performed an invalid operation" error.