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Old April 17th 08, 04:00 PM posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
Mart
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Extracts from AVG 7.5 Free "Help" pages :-

"AVG Rescue Disk is not supported by Windows XP and higher operating
systems".

Hence, the option :- "The tool for creating the Rescue Disk is the Rescue
Disk Wizard, which can be launched from any AVG interface, by pressing the
Rescue Disk shortcut button, or from the system menu Service - Rescue
Disk." option does not appear in XP, only in Win9x. NTFS issues.

Mart


"RJK" wrote in message
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Hi,

I use a "paid for version" of AVG+anti-spyware, and just waded through
all the menus - couldn't find a "make a set of rescue disks" option,
(perhaps not available in my XP version? ...yeah yeah I know this is W98
NG :-), but, would be a handy tool.

TIA

regards, Richard



"philo" wrote in message
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"Mike Y" wrote in message
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"BAP" wrote in message
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I have heard about some free versions of software packages that one
can
download and use to check W98ME systems for viruses, but I do not know

if
any
of them could be launched at the Dos Prompt. There may be times when a
System
may fail to boot successfully and the only way to get anywhere is by
using a
Start-up Diskette. Is there some way to check for viruses at the C:
Prompt?
Thanks!

Well, when I installed Avast on my daughters machine (Win98SE) recently,

it
wanted to install a 'boot check'. When it rebooted, before ANY graphics
came
up, it started a full deep-scan of the system. So, at least I know it
can
do it,
but I don't know how it set the flag to do it. It only did it the first
time it ran.
Might be interesting to install it on a fresh system and just see what
it
put into
the startup to make it work.




AVG also has the option to make a set of rescue disks

However I believe win98 will not be supported by Grisoft for much longer