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Free Antivirus Program for ME
Since the free edition of Avast stopped supporting Windows ME, I found this
quite suitable substitute: http://www.clamwin.com/ Depending on one's attitude towards OpenSource software, I personally don't have any objections, if quality is the main objective, and I found that to be the case. OTOH Avast is giving me a heap of trouble with these popups and trying to induce upgrading. I tried to delete the program, but to no avail, it just will not let me. Is there a way to tweak the registry without doing any harm? Any help appreciated, Harry. |
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Update:
By devine intervention I managed to come up with an 'Uninstall' icon, when again utilizing Add/Remove in conjunction with the Avast program, and which I hadn't noticed before. It easily uninstalled everything but two leftover files, which I deleted manually. What a relief... "webster72n" wrote in message ... Since the free edition of Avast stopped supporting Windows ME, I found this quite suitable substitute: http://www.clamwin.com/ Depending on one's attitude towards OpenSource software, I personally don't have any objections, if quality is the main objective, and I found that to be the case. OTOH Avast is giving me a heap of trouble with these popups and trying to induce upgrading. I tried to delete the program, but to no avail, it just will not let me. Is there a way to tweak the registry without doing any harm? Any help appreciated, Harry. |
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Greetings Webster72n,
FYI: the Avast I have on an old ME machine in the back room still updates 3 or 4 times a day.. (according the def file dates it is indeed updating..) RTS "webster72n" wrote in message ... Update: By devine intervention I managed to come up with an 'Uninstall' icon, when again utilizing Add/Remove in conjunction with the Avast program, and which I hadn't noticed before. It easily uninstalled everything but two leftover files, which I deleted manually. What a relief... "webster72n" wrote in message ... Since the free edition of Avast stopped supporting Windows ME, I found this quite suitable substitute: http://www.clamwin.com/ Depending on one's attitude towards OpenSource software, I personally don't have any objections, if quality is the main objective, and I found that to be the case. OTOH Avast is giving me a heap of trouble with these popups and trying to induce upgrading. I tried to delete the program, but to no avail, it just will not let me. Is there a way to tweak the registry without doing any harm? Any help appreciated, Harry. |
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Harry,
Avast is still being updated and working here on my Win Me (virtual) machines. Most recent VPS signature shows as 100216-0 (16 Feb 2010) running on Avast! build 4.8.1368 (Sept 2009). -- Mike Maltby webster72n wrote: Since the free edition of Avast stopped supporting Windows ME, I found this quite suitable substitute: http://www.clamwin.com/ Depending on one's attitude towards OpenSource software, I personally don't have any objections, if quality is the main objective, and I found that to be the case. OTOH Avast is giving me a heap of trouble with these popups and trying to induce upgrading. I tried to delete the program, but to no avail, it just will not let me. Is there a way to tweak the registry without doing any harm? Any help appreciated, Harry. |
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Mike, and Rocky, if I may:
The pop-ups and messages I was getting told me to upgrade with no further updates available. I had noticed some activity yet, but couldn't put up with the 'nuisance' any more. Sorry about the confusion and here I thought to shed some light on it. Don't you get those dreadful pop-ups and messages? Harry. "Mike M" wrote in message ... Harry, Avast is still being updated and working here on my Win Me (virtual) machines. Most recent VPS signature shows as 100216-0 (16 Feb 2010) running on Avast! build 4.8.1368 (Sept 2009). -- Mike Maltby webster72n wrote: Since the free edition of Avast stopped supporting Windows ME, I found this quite suitable substitute: http://www.clamwin.com/ Depending on one's attitude towards OpenSource software, I personally don't have any objections, if quality is the main objective, and I found that to be the case. OTOH Avast is giving me a heap of trouble with these popups and trying to induce upgrading. I tried to delete the program, but to no avail, it just will not let me. Is there a way to tweak the registry without doing any harm? Any help appreciated, Harry. |
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Don't you get those dreadful pop-ups and messages?
No, and not sure that I ever will as I suspect build 4.8.1368 is the last build of Avast! 4. I have only ever seen the green "updated version available" pop-up is when not running the latest engine build. I have yet to see any message, on any system, urging me to update to Avast 5 which as you know doesn't support Win Me. The only time I have seen a message about upgrading to Avast Pro is when my Avast 4 key had expired and had not yet inserted a new key. -- Mike Maltby webster72n wrote: Mike, and Rocky, if I may: The pop-ups and messages I was getting told me to upgrade with no further updates available. I had noticed some activity yet, but couldn't put up with the 'nuisance' any more. Sorry about the confusion and here I thought to shed some light on it. Don't you get those dreadful pop-ups and messages? |
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"Mike M" wrote in message ... Don't you get those dreadful pop-ups and messages? No, and not sure that I ever will as I suspect build 4.8.1368 is the last build of Avast! 4. I have only ever seen the green "updated version available" pop-up is when not running the latest engine build. I have yet to see any message, on any system, urging me to update to Avast 5 which as you know doesn't support Win Me. The only time I have seen a message about upgrading to Avast Pro is when my Avast 4 key had expired and had not yet inserted a new key. My pop-up (coming up right above the taskbar on the right side) was red/pink, but I didn't use the machine for a few weeks. If it needed a new key it didn't ask for it. Might be possible that's all which was necessary. Too late now, I am moving on. Thanks for clearing this up for me, Mike. Harry. -- Mike Maltby webster72n wrote: Mike, and Rocky, if I may: The pop-ups and messages I was getting told me to upgrade with no further updates available. I had noticed some activity yet, but couldn't put up with the 'nuisance' any more. Sorry about the confusion and here I thought to shed some light on it. Don't you get those dreadful pop-ups and messages? |
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"Mike M" wrote in message ... Don't you get those dreadful pop-ups and messages? No, and not sure that I ever will as I suspect build 4.8.1368 is the last build of Avast! 4. I have only ever seen the green "updated version available" pop-up is when not running the latest engine build. I have yet to see any message, on any system, urging me to update to Avast 5 which as you know doesn't support Win Me. The only time I have seen a message about upgrading to Avast Pro is when my Avast 4 key had expired and had not yet inserted a new key. Hey Mike: As a follow-up I would like to mention that I was able to reinstall Avast in ME, including the necessary key, without any problems and 'pop-ups' and will be using it again, while keeping ClamWin inactivated as a standby. According to 'About avast' the 'Expiration' for the program in this context is 'never'. All one has to do is, renew the key yearly. That is encouraging to me, because I have come to like the workings and looks of the program and got so very used to it. Being able to talk this out here is a good thing. Thanks again for your and Rocky's input, Harry. -- Mike Maltby webster72n wrote: Mike, and Rocky, if I may: The pop-ups and messages I was getting told me to upgrade with no further updates available. I had noticed some activity yet, but couldn't put up with the 'nuisance' any more. Sorry about the confusion and here I thought to shed some light on it. Don't you get those dreadful pop-ups and messages? |
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Tks Webster72n,
It's not often I know enough about anything to comment about it, but glad I could put forth personal info that could help.. (if all that makes any sense) ;-) RTS "webster72n" wrote in message ... "Mike M" wrote in message ... Don't you get those dreadful pop-ups and messages? No, and not sure that I ever will as I suspect build 4.8.1368 is the last build of Avast! 4. I have only ever seen the green "updated version available" pop-up is when not running the latest engine build. I have yet to see any message, on any system, urging me to update to Avast 5 which as you know doesn't support Win Me. The only time I have seen a message about upgrading to Avast Pro is when my Avast 4 key had expired and had not yet inserted a new key. Hey Mike: As a follow-up I would like to mention that I was able to reinstall Avast in ME, including the necessary key, without any problems and 'pop-ups' and will be using it again, while keeping ClamWin inactivated as a standby. According to 'About avast' the 'Expiration' for the program in this context is 'never'. All one has to do is, renew the key yearly. That is encouraging to me, because I have come to like the workings and looks of the program and got so very used to it. Being able to talk this out here is a good thing. Thanks again for your and Rocky's input, Harry. -- Mike Maltby webster72n wrote: Mike, and Rocky, if I may: The pop-ups and messages I was getting told me to upgrade with no further updates available. I had noticed some activity yet, but couldn't put up with the 'nuisance' any more. Sorry about the confusion and here I thought to shed some light on it. Don't you get those dreadful pop-ups and messages? |
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On Tue, 16 Feb 2010 18:18:04 -0000, Mike M wrote:
Don't you get those dreadful pop-ups and messages? No, and not sure that I ever will as I suspect build 4.8.1368 is the last build of Avast! 4. I have only ever seen the green "updated version available" pop-up is when not running the latest engine build. I have yet to see any message, on any system, urging me to update to Avast 5 which as you know doesn't support Win Me. The only time I have seen a message about upgrading to Avast Pro is when my Avast 4 key had expired and had not yet inserted a new key. I am also still running Avast on Windows ME with no problem. I got tired of the update persistently starting when it was most irritating, so I changed the settings to Manual Update, and start it myself two or three times a week. I have not seen a pop-up message in ages. I just use the iAVS Update and leave the Program Update alone. -- * erstat invalid med fm hvis du ønsker at e-maile mig. * replace invalid with fm if you want to e-mail me. |
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