Yes it is and so is the latest version of Sun Java 1.5, but for whatever
reason they both seem buggy on my computer, so I have Spybot 1.3 and JRE
1.4.2 installed. You have to wonder why, in the cross-platform,
backward-forward compatibility routine that Windows application providers
are stuck in, that the developers for each application would elect to keep
two versions going, at least for now. Maybe older OS's having problems with
the newer versions has something to do with it, (don't really know).

bhrich wrote:
Unless I'm misunderstanding something here, the latest version of
Spybot S&D (version 1.4) is fully compatible with Win 98.
Check the following site under "supported operating systems" and I'm
using it on my 98 system.
http://www.spybot.info/en/spybotsd/index.html


"Roger Fink" wrote in message
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glee wrote:
I have been using Avast free home edition for a couple of years, and
like it very much, on both Win98 and WinXP. It is IMO far better
than AVG free edition, with far more frequent updates. I do have to
say, though, that Avast should be run on a reasonably fast
system.....anything less than a 500MHz processor and 128MB RAM and
the system may exhibit some slowdowns. Avast ran well on my old
333MHz AMD K6-2 with 128MB RAM, with only a slight and temporary
performance hit while it did its background updates.

"dan" wrote in message
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Anyone have comments on the 'avast' anti virus home addition app.
?

Avast works the best of the "small footprint freebies" I've tried
(Avast & AVG), and the large ones are non-starters, but some people
who use Windows 98, including me, are currently experiencing a major
problem caused by Avast's latest, or possibly second-to-latest,
program update (not virus pattern update) , the most recent ones
being 4.7.871 and 4.7.869. What happens is that when you open the
GUI panel it freezes, so you can't do a scan and you have to
CTRL-ALT-DEL your way out. And you can't do a scan by going into
trhe directory and clicking the file either. On the other hand some
people are experiencing no problem at all.

The way I got around this situation was to uninstall the program and
then install an earlier version, 4.7.844, which I did tonight. It's
available he
http://www.filehippo.com/download_avast_antivirus/?1127

This is what's slowly doing '98 in. I've got the older but still
supported version of java installed, the end of the line unsupported
Kerio, the older
but still supported Spybot, etc., and now, unless the developers come
through which IMO is by no means certain, I might have done my last
A/V program upgrade.