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Old May 11th 10, 06:34 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
webster72n
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Default Is there still a free AV for ME?


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.


"Dave Lee Travis Bickle" wrote in message
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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!