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Antivirus software for 98
Don't be a jack-ass by multi-posting.
Why didn't you cross-post instead? Jack wrote: What type of antivirus software do people using 98 use now that Norton and AVG no longer support 98? There are no "drive-by" vulnerabilities that affects Windows 98. Never has been. And most of the malware that tricks users to perform the installation doesn't run on Windows 98. So right off the bat, the need for AntiVirus software for Windows 98 is basically zero, and has been for at least the past 3 or 4 years. Norton Anti-Virus 2002 is probably the best and least resource-intensive AV program for win-98, and it can still be updated by downloading the Symantec Intellgent Updater package. This brings NAV 2002 completely up-to-date with the most recent virus definitiona and scan engine. If you can't find NAV-2002 on a torrent and you really want it - let me know. I can put it on a torrent or a download site. If you are seeking an antivirus package to perform on-demand scanning of suspicous files (that you might acquire from the net) then I suggest that instead of seeking an AV app, that you submit suspicious files to virustotal.com where they will be scanned by 40 different AV programs. My 98 machine still outperforms my XP significantly. Because Windows 98 runs all apps in i86 Ring-0, has no cumbersome privledge or security accounts model, and runs on the faster FAT32 file system, it's a natural result that it's a faster operating system compared to the bloated NT-based OS's. |
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