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Old May 12th 10, 09:48 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
Dave Lee Travis Bickle
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Default Is there still a free AV for ME?

Apologies if I came across as unnecessarily abrasive at any point, Harry.
I've been getting the feelimg I was, though I'm too tired now to read back
through and verify that. Anyway, no, all this is on one pc - as I suspect
Noel may have said (but I'll know momentarily). Almost all the systems I'm
running lately or have run are virtual machines. I actually tried installing
some of the older ones to the real hard drives, but they simply won't
anymore! 9x was never entirely stable on the 'this' computer - but since I
rebuilt it (after frying the MB) not even Windows 2000 will install on it!

Shane

webster72n wrote:
Hello Shane:

At the time of my posting the 'names game' didn't occur to me.
Since it does now, I shall respectfully regress and live with my
choice(s). You must have quite an assortment of pc's at your disposal.
It is always good to be in touch with you.

Cheers,

Harry.


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Oh yes, forgot to add: end of 2010 is the date supplied by Alwil to
Jerry Martin as reported here a month or so ago (which I found by
searching, i.e. if I'd seen the thread previously I might have
realised Rocky T had contributed to it before informing him of what
he knew before I did). Though the question then becomes which is
better: to continue using a product that will be essentially
pointless in just over 6 months or switch now to one that could
still be getting def updates for years? With my situation it is
different in that - apart from NOD32 being arguably a lot better
than Avast! - it was paid for, so why not keep using it to the last?
Though - while the 98/ME version of NOD32 v.2 not only still works
perfectly well in Windows 95 (a quality now as rare as what comes
out of the back of a rocking horse) let alone 98 and ME - I continue
to run the NT version (of v.2) mostly to get the def updates for use
in portable installations. It is a shame that those will end when
the licence does, but it sure as home isn't worth the price *just*
to keep an updated thumb drive installation. Stinger is not worth
bothering with. I don't know why McAfee do, let
alone the humble user. Their sdat scanner either run from DOS for
FAT or from a BartPE (which can also be run from USB) for NTFS,
can't be trusted after the recent McAfee FP debacle. It is nice to
have something other than Sysclean, but Sysclean is pretty good - if
you scan without cleaning, then interpret the results.

Oh, look at the time!

Toodle-oo!

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"Rockytsquirrel" wrote in message
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Avast 4.8 still works on ME and does update several times a
day..

Til the end of 2010, apparently. I tried it but it almost
continually popped up notifications of the new build and as it
wasn't immediately obvious how to turn that off, I uninstalled it.

Not so sure about the end of 2010,
and I don't have the problem with those notifications anymore
since I renewed my registration.
IMHO Avast is still the best.

You haven't tried enough alternatives then, Harry. Incidentally it
also caused problems in 2 or 3 of the systems I installed it on -
on which I now have either NAV2002...or nothing. This is no longer
anything to do with the interface, as I don't give an inverted dos
about that when it is on a system I rarely use. btw I had only
recently registered it, on account of the first key I used was out
of date. Really, if you mean 'the best AV' you're seriously deluded.
Personal
preferences aside, Avast! shows the occasional good result in tests
but spends most of it's time at or maybe slightly above mediocre -
rather like AVG, which I used to swear by (as far as free AVs go),
but I was never under the illusion it was 'the best'.

While I still have a little time left on my NOD32 licence, I am
migrating to free Avira - using it here in Windows7 as I type. Once
you disable the nag screen it is pretty good (probably is *with*
the nag too if you can stand that sort of thing). I am undecided as
yet as to just how good Antivir is - though as with all of them it
varies over time anyway. Certainly these days, though, I will go
with the German product over the Czech products any day of the
week. Rather like if any version of Linux was polished enough to
stay on a primary here (I just tried Kubuntu 10.04 both on the
metal and in VPC and neither stayed more than 5 minutes, failing as
miserably as *buntu always does except for the too-easily pleased)
it would be the originally-German openSUSE. Though I think Beemers
and Porches are a variation on crepe. Harumph!