In message , thanatoid
writes:
With apologies to all involved, I am /really/ getting tired of
the never-ending "Free AV for 98?" threads.

They are a bit repetitive, but if they bother you, don't read them (-:!
And there is always the matter that things change - any valid answer may
cease to be, as suppliers cease '98 support. (Or, though it's unlikely,
if someone adds a new one!)
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Google IS generally quite useful, as long as you don't forget
that the result most worth looking at it is not necessarily on
the first page, let alone /the first link/. Anyway.)

(And people don't know how to use it; I have the advanced search as my
home page. But one can get the same effect by using ", +, -, and so on.)

Here are 2 fairly simple solutions to the above mentioned
endless questions.

In case you are not too cheap to pay $40/year (you spend more on
cappuccinos in one week, FFS) for a 98 version (2.7) of the best

Wow, you've in the past implied you were in some uncivilised part of the
world, but if you're somewhere you can spend over $40 a week on
capuccinos ... I spend considerably less than that on all shop-served
food!

AV software there is, ESET NOD32, while it is no longer
available on their site as of Feb 1, the virus signature updates
for that version will be available until Feb 1, 2012. (If you

Er - you started by saying "if you're not too cheap to pay $40", then
say it's not available from Feb 1 - and you're saying this in March???
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free copy (if you have to ask where...) of XP on another
Don't those "free" versions pretty soon get blocked by MS?

partition ONLY to get the new versions of the few currently free
/AND/ XP+ ONLY A-V programs there are, and scan whatever you
want from there, and then reboot back into 98.

In case you're wondering, the "run from XP partition and then
reboot" solution is based on my firm belief that running an A-V
all the time while on-line is totally pointless.

It might have some validity under XP if you enable things like Java,
javascript, and ActiveX, which _are_ enabled by default I think.
(Besides, some websites won't work anyway if you turn them off.)
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Of course, certain aspects of the above solutions may be totally
invalidated if someone proves that Win2000 and up viruses are
different than 9x viruses, but I do not believe they are. And

(I know what you meant to say there.)

even if they ARE, a good scanner /should/ find them anywhere.
One of the best (free) scanners for years was F-Prot for DOS and
it found stuff on all Win platforms, AFAIK.
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