Antivirus software for 98

In message , PCR
writes:
J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
In message , PCR
writes:
Sunny wrote:
[]
34 MB does seem a lot to take in one sitting. But I see my Alwil
Software folder is about 148 MB huge.

OK, good to know -- but I'm glad I haven't had to do this yet that
way!


The McAfee daily update .zip files are around 66M.

That's even worse, but it doesn't work for Win98 anymore anyhow. Here's
my actual avast! file as of yesterday...

I don't use it as my primary AV (in fact I don't use that machine online
any more), but it seems to accept the data files. The .exe installer for
them doesn't seem to work any more - I have to unzip the four data files
(.dat, IIRR) from the .zip manually, replacing the ones present - but
last time I ran McAfee, which was sometime last year, it ran OK, using a
fairly recent set of files unzipped in that manner. (At least, it gave
the impression of running, and didn't complain that the data files were
unusable; it didn't find anything.)

C:\Program Files\Alwil Software\Avast4\DATAdir *.vps
Directory of C:\Program Files\Alwil Software\Avast4\DATA
400 VPS 35,089,544 02-03-10 7:28p 400.vps




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J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
In message , PCR
writes:
J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
In message , PCR
writes:
Sunny wrote:
[]
34 MB does seem a lot to take in one sitting. But I see my Alwil
Software folder is about 148 MB huge.

OK, good to know -- but I'm glad I haven't had to do this yet that
way!


The McAfee daily update .zip files are around 66M.

That's even worse, but it doesn't work for Win98 anymore anyhow.
Here's my actual avast! file as of yesterday...

I don't use it as my primary AV (in fact I don't use that machine
online any more), but it seems to accept the data files. The .exe
installer for them doesn't seem to work any more - I have to unzip
the four data files (.dat, IIRR) from the .zip manually, replacing
the ones present - but last time I ran McAfee, which was sometime
last year, it ran OK, using a fairly recent set of files unzipped in
that manner. (At least, it gave the impression of running, and didn't
complain that the data files were unusable; it didn't find anything.)

I did the McAfee manual updates myself for a while, but my recollection
is that it too ultimately failed to function. Can it be the site I was
using no longer offered them? Can it be the format changed? I don't
recall the details!

C:\Program Files\Alwil Software\Avast4\DATAdir *.vps
Directory of C:\Program Files\Alwil Software\Avast4\DATA
400 VPS 35,089,544 02-03-10 7:28p 400.vps

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Thanks or Good Luck,
There may be humor in this post, and,
Naturally, you will not sue,
Should things get worse after this,
PCR

J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
In message , PCR
writes:
J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
In message , PCR
writes:
Sunny wrote:
[]
34 MB does seem a lot to take in one sitting. But I see my Alwil
Software folder is about 148 MB huge.

OK, good to know -- but I'm glad I haven't had to do this yet that
way!


The McAfee daily update .zip files are around 66M.

That's even worse, but it doesn't work for Win98 anymore anyhow.
Here's my actual avast! file as of yesterday...

I don't use it as my primary AV (in fact I don't use that machine
online any more), but it seems to accept the data files. The .exe
installer for them doesn't seem to work any more - I have to unzip
the four data files (.dat, IIRR) from the .zip manually, replacing
the ones present - but last time I ran McAfee, which was sometime
last year, it ran OK, using a fairly recent set of files unzipped in
that manner. (At least, it gave the impression of running, and didn't
complain that the data files were unusable; it didn't find anything.)

I did the McAfee manual updates myself for a while, but my recollection
is that it too ultimately failed to function. Can it be the site I was
using no longer offered them? Can it be the format changed? I don't
recall the details!

C:\Program Files\Alwil Software\Avast4\DATAdir *.vps
Directory of C:\Program Files\Alwil Software\Avast4\DATA
400 VPS 35,089,544 02-03-10 7:28p 400.vps

--
Thanks or Good Luck,
There may be humor in this post, and,
Naturally, you will not sue,
Should things get worse after this,
PCR

PCR wrote:
J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
In message , PCR
writes:
J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
In message , PCR
writes:
Sunny wrote:
[]
34 MB does seem a lot to take in one sitting. But I see my Alwil
Software folder is about 148 MB huge.

OK, good to know -- but I'm glad I haven't had to do this yet that
way!


The McAfee daily update .zip files are around 66M.

That's even worse, but it doesn't work for Win98 anymore anyhow.
Here's my actual avast! file as of yesterday...

I don't use it as my primary AV (in fact I don't use that machine
online any more), but it seems to accept the data files. The .exe
installer for them doesn't seem to work any more - I have to unzip
the four data files (.dat, IIRR) from the .zip manually, replacing
the ones present - but last time I ran McAfee, which was sometime
last year, it ran OK, using a fairly recent set of files unzipped in
that manner. (At least, it gave the impression of running, and didn't
complain that the data files were unusable; it didn't find anything.)

I did the McAfee manual updates myself for a while, but my
recollection is that it too ultimately failed to function. Can it be
the site I was using no longer offered them? Can it be the format
changed? I don't recall the details!

I think the command to extract the McAfee defs manually was...

Superdat.exe /e

Then, the files had to be put where they belonged. (Or did I do it that
way?) But I'm not sure what ultimately went wrong -- I just can't
recall! Did I get a message that the files were bad?

Anyhow, I'm still fairly happy with the switch to avast!.


C:\Program Files\Alwil Software\Avast4\DATAdir *.vps
Directory of C:\Program Files\Alwil Software\Avast4\DATA
400 VPS 35,089,544 02-03-10 7:28p 400.vps

--
Thanks or Good Luck,
There may be humor in this post, and,
Naturally, you will not sue,
Should things get worse after this,
PCR

PCR wrote:
J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
In message , PCR
writes:
J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
In message , PCR
writes:
Sunny wrote:
[]
34 MB does seem a lot to take in one sitting. But I see my Alwil
Software folder is about 148 MB huge.

OK, good to know -- but I'm glad I haven't had to do this yet that
way!


The McAfee daily update .zip files are around 66M.

That's even worse, but it doesn't work for Win98 anymore anyhow.
Here's my actual avast! file as of yesterday...

I don't use it as my primary AV (in fact I don't use that machine
online any more), but it seems to accept the data files. The .exe
installer for them doesn't seem to work any more - I have to unzip
the four data files (.dat, IIRR) from the .zip manually, replacing
the ones present - but last time I ran McAfee, which was sometime
last year, it ran OK, using a fairly recent set of files unzipped in
that manner. (At least, it gave the impression of running, and didn't
complain that the data files were unusable; it didn't find anything.)

I did the McAfee manual updates myself for a while, but my
recollection is that it too ultimately failed to function. Can it be
the site I was using no longer offered them? Can it be the format
changed? I don't recall the details!

I think the command to extract the McAfee defs manually was...

Superdat.exe /e

Then, the files had to be put where they belonged. (Or did I do it that
way?) But I'm not sure what ultimately went wrong -- I just can't
recall! Did I get a message that the files were bad?

Anyhow, I'm still fairly happy with the switch to avast!.


C:\Program Files\Alwil Software\Avast4\DATAdir *.vps
Directory of C:\Program Files\Alwil Software\Avast4\DATA
400 VPS 35,089,544 02-03-10 7:28p 400.vps

--
Thanks or Good Luck,
There may be humor in this post, and,
Naturally, you will not sue,
Should things get worse after this,
PCR

Can I ask why you pussies are continuing this anti-virus thread for so
long?

I've posted links to where you can download Norton Anti-virus 2002 for
FREE, which IS COMPATIBLE with windows 98 and for which you can still
download functional virus definition files FOR FREE.

And I still shake my head and wonder why you PUSSIES are so paranoid
about viruses and win-98 in the first place - given that you probably
haven't seen a virus on your systems for years (and you pussies are
probably on dial-up anyways) ...

Can I ask why you pussies are continuing this anti-virus thread for so
long?

I've posted links to where you can download Norton Anti-virus 2002 for
FREE, which IS COMPATIBLE with windows 98 and for which you can still
download functional virus definition files FOR FREE.

And I still shake my head and wonder why you PUSSIES are so paranoid
about viruses and win-98 in the first place - given that you probably
haven't seen a virus on your systems for years (and you pussies are
probably on dial-up anyways) ...

In message , PCR
writes:
[]
I think the command to extract the McAfee defs manually was...

Superdat.exe /e

I can't remember the /e switch; certainly, the autoinstall was indeed
superdat.exe. I have been downloading a .zip file, which contains the
data (.dat IIRR) files as well as some others.

Then, the files had to be put where they belonged. (Or did I do it that
way?) But I'm not sure what ultimately went wrong -- I just can't
recall! Did I get a message that the files were bad?

IIRR, the superdat started to say it couldn't find a valid installation.

Anyhow, I'm still fairly happy with the switch to avast!.

I was happy with the switch to AVG (which I did years ago - I just kept
getting the McAfee .zip files out of curiosity, I think). Unfortunately,
I didn't turn off AVG's autoupdate in time to stop the final "update"
that just pops up every time the machine runs a banner about updating,
TWICE (and only when you run things), which if course you can't. I
really ought to get round to uninstalling it.
[]
(I use AVIRA on here - don't know if that runs under '9x, I think not.)
--
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G.5AL-IS-P--Ch++(p)Ar@T0H+Sh0!:`)DNAf
** http://www.soft255.demon.co.uk/G6JPG-PC/JPGminPC.htm for ludicrously
outdated thoughts on PCs. **

Parkinson: "What caused your conversion to women - was it the love of a good
one?" George Melly: "No the love of several bad ones" (Lizbuff in UMRA
'01-4-25)

In message , PCR
writes:
[]
I think the command to extract the McAfee defs manually was...

Superdat.exe /e

I can't remember the /e switch; certainly, the autoinstall was indeed
superdat.exe. I have been downloading a .zip file, which contains the
data (.dat IIRR) files as well as some others.

Then, the files had to be put where they belonged. (Or did I do it that
way?) But I'm not sure what ultimately went wrong -- I just can't
recall! Did I get a message that the files were bad?

IIRR, the superdat started to say it couldn't find a valid installation.

Anyhow, I'm still fairly happy with the switch to avast!.

I was happy with the switch to AVG (which I did years ago - I just kept
getting the McAfee .zip files out of curiosity, I think). Unfortunately,
I didn't turn off AVG's autoupdate in time to stop the final "update"
that just pops up every time the machine runs a banner about updating,
TWICE (and only when you run things), which if course you can't. I
really ought to get round to uninstalling it.
[]
(I use AVIRA on here - don't know if that runs under '9x, I think not.)
--
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G.5AL-IS-P--Ch++(p)Ar@T0H+Sh0!:`)DNAf
** http://www.soft255.demon.co.uk/G6JPG-PC/JPGminPC.htm for ludicrously
outdated thoughts on PCs. **

Parkinson: "What caused your conversion to women - was it the love of a good
one?" George Melly: "No the love of several bad ones" (Lizbuff in UMRA
'01-4-25)

In message , 98 Guy writes:
Can I ask why you pussies are continuing this anti-virus thread for so
long?

You can ask, if it makes you feel good (-:!

I've posted links to where you can download Norton Anti-virus 2002 for
FREE, which IS COMPATIBLE with windows 98 and for which you can still
download functional virus definition files FOR FREE.

And I still shake my head and wonder why you PUSSIES are so paranoid
about viruses and win-98 in the first place - given that you probably
haven't seen a virus on your systems for years (and you pussies are
probably on dial-up anyways) ...

I'm not paranoid, or even worried - I'd be most surprised if I ever got
a virus on that machine. But there is such a thing as intellectual
curiosity: some of us like to see how long we can keep some things
going. It's a bit like keeping an old car or other piece of machinery
going - as a sort of hobby, even though it's not as efficient as a
modern one. In fact I assume it's the case for the vast majority of
those continuing to play with '9x: I very much doubt they are using it
as their primary system.

Not that there aren't some: I have a friend who uses '98, his main
activities being genealogy and transferring his LPs to CD. He is on
dialup, doesn't use the web (not IMO something you can do on dialup
these days), only email. AFAICR he has no AV at all.
--
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G.5AL-IS-P--Ch++(p)Ar@T0H+Sh0!:`)DNAf
** http://www.soft255.demon.co.uk/G6JPG-PC/JPGminPC.htm for ludicrously
outdated thoughts on PCs. **

Parkinson: "What caused your conversion to women - was it the love of a good
one?" George Melly: "No the love of several bad ones" (Lizbuff in UMRA
'01-4-25)