thanatoid wrote in
:

you can install a free copy (if you have to ask where...)
of XP on another 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.

Is this officially OK?

I had thought of this but wondered if. somewhere in the code
of an AV program running under XP, it might do something to
the files, in the process of fixing a virus, that might work
under XP but not under 98 and crash a 98 system?

Is it necessary to use a dual boot system? Could this be
done equally done connected to an XP system via an ethernet
or USB connection?