Free online virus scanner?

On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 01:00:02 GMT, "Buffalo"
in microsoft.public.win98.performance wrote:


"FACE" wrote in message
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On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 15:41:10 GMT, "Buffalo"

in microsoft.public.win98.performance wrote:


"FACE" wrote in message
.. .
On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 09:54:53 -0400, FACE
in
microsoft.public.win98.performance wrote:

Can someone suggest a free 0nline virus scanner OTHER THAN
Trendmicro/Housecall?


Reason for "OTHER THAN" is that IE will not download the setupex
file from
trendmicro. It gets to about 5% and stops.

Netscape would download it but not WIN would not run the
"setupex"
program
past extracting files -- said it could not find the Netscape
directory
(which I pointed it to) and then said it could not find the
plugins
directory under Netscape. (which is there, albeit empty)

Google coughs up numerous 'free scan' sites -- but who to trust?

My IE internet settings for Internet Zone -- where trendmicro
shows
up in
the lower right of IE 5.0 window -- having to do with ActiveX:

Download signed ActiveX controls
o Prompt

Download unsigned ActiveX controls
o Prompt

Initialize and run activeX controls not marked as safe
o Prompt

Run ActiveX controls and plugins
o Enable

Script ActiveX controls marked safe for scripting
o Enable

For IE, It is unsigned and I answered yes to the prompt to
install
and run
and chose c:\install for a directory. Did not work. :-)


FACE

Online Antivirus scanners:
--------------------------
http://housecall.trendmicro.com/hous...start_corp.asp
http://www.kaspersky.com/remoteviruschk.html
http://security.symantec.com/sscv6/default.asp
http://www.pandasoftware.com/activescan/activescan.asp
http://commandondemand.com/eval/index.cfm
http://www.ravantivirus.com/scan/ [See **]
http://www.bitdefender.com/scan/licence.php
http://www.pcpitstop.com/antivirus/default.asp
http://scan.sygatetech.com/prestealthscan.html

** Caveat:
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archiv...3-07/0240.html


Thanks. I suppose all of the above (except the caveat) are
trustworthy.

I chose and ran Symantec from your list.

FACE
They're all trustworthy.
Find anything?


Nope. Huge download, over 50k files checked ..... 0 infected.
I did note that Symantec did not check within archives (zips) -- and the
info screen said as much -- since I have held a trojan containing zip file
just to be sure that the online AV was working. (Trendmicro always finds it.
:-))

I guess every coupla months I decide that something must be wrong.
I used to run the trendmicro but since it would not today, i immediately
decided that I must have a real mcnasty stopping it. G

I had run Spybot S&D and AdAware.

Yesterday I had really slow internet response, but a decent dial-up
connection speed and I checked the connections and had more than I could
account for(about 6 or 7). But all but two were numeric IPs -- no domain
names. The 2 domain names were valid for what i was doing.

(Does port 19999 mean anything in particular?)

Only thing that has changed in my system since I last ran Trendmicro was
that I updated WIN98 SE for the first time with the microsoft updates -- I
downloaded and the system applied 9 out of 11, IIRC.
One that I did not get was ActiveX 9.0.

Hey, you know this all used to be a lot simpler!

FACE

That seems like a lot f updates unless you havent updated for quite a while.

"FACE" wrote in message
...
On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 01:00:02 GMT, "Buffalo"

in microsoft.public.win98.performance wrote:


"FACE" wrote in message
.. .
On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 15:41:10 GMT, "Buffalo"

in microsoft.public.win98.performance wrote:


"FACE" wrote in message
.. .
On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 09:54:53 -0400, FACE
in
microsoft.public.win98.performance wrote:

Can someone suggest a free 0nline virus scanner OTHER THAN
Trendmicro/Housecall?


Reason for "OTHER THAN" is that IE will not download the setupex
file from
trendmicro. It gets to about 5% and stops.

Netscape would download it but not WIN would not run the
"setupex"
program
past extracting files -- said it could not find the Netscape
directory
(which I pointed it to) and then said it could not find the
plugins
directory under Netscape. (which is there, albeit empty)

Google coughs up numerous 'free scan' sites -- but who to trust?

My IE internet settings for Internet Zone -- where trendmicro
shows
up in
the lower right of IE 5.0 window -- having to do with ActiveX:

Download signed ActiveX controls
o Prompt

Download unsigned ActiveX controls
o Prompt

Initialize and run activeX controls not marked as safe
o Prompt

Run ActiveX controls and plugins
o Enable

Script ActiveX controls marked safe for scripting
o Enable

For IE, It is unsigned and I answered yes to the prompt to
install
and run
and chose c:\install for a directory. Did not work. :-)


FACE

Online Antivirus scanners:
--------------------------
http://housecall.trendmicro.com/hous...start_corp.asp
http://www.kaspersky.com/remoteviruschk.html
http://security.symantec.com/sscv6/default.asp
http://www.pandasoftware.com/activescan/activescan.asp
http://commandondemand.com/eval/index.cfm
http://www.ravantivirus.com/scan/ [See **]
http://www.bitdefender.com/scan/licence.php
http://www.pcpitstop.com/antivirus/default.asp
http://scan.sygatetech.com/prestealthscan.html

** Caveat:
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archiv...3-07/0240.html


Thanks. I suppose all of the above (except the caveat) are
trustworthy.

I chose and ran Symantec from your list.

FACE
They're all trustworthy.
Find anything?


Nope. Huge download, over 50k files checked ..... 0 infected.
I did note that Symantec did not check within archives (zips) -- and the
info screen said as much -- since I have held a trojan containing zip file
just to be sure that the online AV was working. (Trendmicro always finds
it.
:-))

I guess every coupla months I decide that something must be wrong.
I used to run the trendmicro but since it would not today, i immediately
decided that I must have a real mcnasty stopping it. G

I had run Spybot S&D and AdAware.

Yesterday I had really slow internet response, but a decent dial-up
connection speed and I checked the connections and had more than I could
account for(about 6 or 7). But all but two were numeric IPs -- no domain
names. The 2 domain names were valid for what i was doing.

(Does port 19999 mean anything in particular?)

Only thing that has changed in my system since I last ran Trendmicro was
that I updated WIN98 SE for the first time with the microsoft updates -- I
downloaded and the system applied 9 out of 11, IIRC.
One that I did not get was ActiveX 9.0.

Hey, you know this all used to be a lot simpler!

FACE

That seems like a lot f updates unless you havent updated for quite a while.

"FACE" wrote in message
...
On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 01:00:02 GMT, "Buffalo"

in microsoft.public.win98.performance wrote:


"FACE" wrote in message
.. .
On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 15:41:10 GMT, "Buffalo"

in microsoft.public.win98.performance wrote:


"FACE" wrote in message
.. .
On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 09:54:53 -0400, FACE
in
microsoft.public.win98.performance wrote:

Can someone suggest a free 0nline virus scanner OTHER THAN
Trendmicro/Housecall?


Reason for "OTHER THAN" is that IE will not download the setupex
file from
trendmicro. It gets to about 5% and stops.

Netscape would download it but not WIN would not run the
"setupex"
program
past extracting files -- said it could not find the Netscape
directory
(which I pointed it to) and then said it could not find the
plugins
directory under Netscape. (which is there, albeit empty)

Google coughs up numerous 'free scan' sites -- but who to trust?

My IE internet settings for Internet Zone -- where trendmicro
shows
up in
the lower right of IE 5.0 window -- having to do with ActiveX:

Download signed ActiveX controls
o Prompt

Download unsigned ActiveX controls
o Prompt

Initialize and run activeX controls not marked as safe
o Prompt

Run ActiveX controls and plugins
o Enable

Script ActiveX controls marked safe for scripting
o Enable

For IE, It is unsigned and I answered yes to the prompt to
install
and run
and chose c:\install for a directory. Did not work. :-)


FACE

Online Antivirus scanners:
--------------------------
http://housecall.trendmicro.com/hous...start_corp.asp
http://www.kaspersky.com/remoteviruschk.html
http://security.symantec.com/sscv6/default.asp
http://www.pandasoftware.com/activescan/activescan.asp
http://commandondemand.com/eval/index.cfm
http://www.ravantivirus.com/scan/ [See **]
http://www.bitdefender.com/scan/licence.php
http://www.pcpitstop.com/antivirus/default.asp
http://scan.sygatetech.com/prestealthscan.html

** Caveat:
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archiv...3-07/0240.html


Thanks. I suppose all of the above (except the caveat) are
trustworthy.

I chose and ran Symantec from your list.

FACE
They're all trustworthy.
Find anything?


Nope. Huge download, over 50k files checked ..... 0 infected.
I did note that Symantec did not check within archives (zips) -- and the
info screen said as much -- since I have held a trojan containing zip file
just to be sure that the online AV was working. (Trendmicro always finds
it.
:-))

I guess every coupla months I decide that something must be wrong.
I used to run the trendmicro but since it would not today, i immediately
decided that I must have a real mcnasty stopping it. G

I had run Spybot S&D and AdAware.

Yesterday I had really slow internet response, but a decent dial-up
connection speed and I checked the connections and had more than I could
account for(about 6 or 7). But all but two were numeric IPs -- no domain
names. The 2 domain names were valid for what i was doing.

(Does port 19999 mean anything in particular?)

Only thing that has changed in my system since I last ran Trendmicro was
that I updated WIN98 SE for the first time with the microsoft updates -- I
downloaded and the system applied 9 out of 11, IIRC.
One that I did not get was ActiveX 9.0.

Hey, you know this all used to be a lot simpler!

FACE

It was the first time I had updated this SE system at all.

FACE


On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 04:32:35 -0000, "SFB - KB3MM" in
microsoft.public.win98.performance wrote:

That seems like a lot f updates unless you havent updated for quite a while.

"FACE" wrote in message
.. .


Only thing that has changed in my system since I last ran Trendmicro was
that I updated WIN98 SE for the first time with the microsoft updates -- I
downloaded and the system applied 9 out of 11, IIRC.
One that I did not get was ActiveX 9.0.

Hey, you know this all used to be a lot simpler!

FACE

It was the first time I had updated this SE system at all.

FACE


On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 04:32:35 -0000, "SFB - KB3MM" in
microsoft.public.win98.performance wrote:

That seems like a lot f updates unless you havent updated for quite a while.

"FACE" wrote in message
.. .


Only thing that has changed in my system since I last ran Trendmicro was
that I updated WIN98 SE for the first time with the microsoft updates -- I
downloaded and the system applied 9 out of 11, IIRC.
One that I did not get was ActiveX 9.0.

Hey, you know this all used to be a lot simpler!

FACE

"FACE" wrote in message
...
On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 01:00:02 GMT, "Buffalo"

in microsoft.public.win98.performance wrote:


"FACE" wrote in message
.. .
On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 15:41:10 GMT, "Buffalo"

in microsoft.public.win98.performance wrote:


"FACE" wrote in message
.. .
On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 09:54:53 -0400, FACE
in
microsoft.public.win98.performance wrote:

Can someone suggest a free 0nline virus scanner OTHER THAN
Trendmicro/Housecall?


Reason for "OTHER THAN" is that IE will not download the
setupex
file from
trendmicro. It gets to about 5% and stops.

Netscape would download it but not WIN would not run the
"setupex"
program
past extracting files -- said it could not find the Netscape
directory
(which I pointed it to) and then said it could not find the
plugins
directory under Netscape. (which is there, albeit empty)

Google coughs up numerous 'free scan' sites -- but who to
trust?

My IE internet settings for Internet Zone -- where trendmicro
shows
up in
the lower right of IE 5.0 window -- having to do with ActiveX:

Download signed ActiveX controls
o Prompt

Download unsigned ActiveX controls
o Prompt

Initialize and run activeX controls not marked as safe
o Prompt

Run ActiveX controls and plugins
o Enable

Script ActiveX controls marked safe for scripting
o Enable

For IE, It is unsigned and I answered yes to the prompt to
install
and run
and chose c:\install for a directory. Did not work. :-)


FACE

Online Antivirus scanners:
--------------------------
http://housecall.trendmicro.com/hous...start_corp.asp
http://www.kaspersky.com/remoteviruschk.html
http://security.symantec.com/sscv6/default.asp
http://www.pandasoftware.com/activescan/activescan.asp
http://commandondemand.com/eval/index.cfm
http://www.ravantivirus.com/scan/ [See **]
http://www.bitdefender.com/scan/licence.php
http://www.pcpitstop.com/antivirus/default.asp
http://scan.sygatetech.com/prestealthscan.html

** Caveat:
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archiv...3-07/0240.html


Thanks. I suppose all of the above (except the caveat) are
trustworthy.

I chose and ran Symantec from your list.

FACE
They're all trustworthy.
Find anything?


Nope. Huge download, over 50k files checked ..... 0 infected.
I did note that Symantec did not check within archives (zips) -- and
the
info screen said as much -- since I have held a trojan containing
zip file
just to be sure that the online AV was working. (Trendmicro always
finds it.
:-))

I guess every coupla months I decide that something must be wrong.
I used to run the trendmicro but since it would not today, i
immediately
decided that I must have a real mcnasty stopping it. G

I had run Spybot S&D and AdAware.

Yesterday I had really slow internet response, but a decent dial-up
connection speed and I checked the connections and had more than I
could
account for(about 6 or 7). But all but two were numeric IPs -- no
domain
names. The 2 domain names were valid for what i was doing.

(Does port 19999 mean anything in particular?)

Only thing that has changed in my system since I last ran Trendmicro
was
that I updated WIN98 SE for the first time with the microsoft
updates -- I
downloaded and the system applied 9 out of 11, IIRC.
One that I did not get was ActiveX 9.0.

Hey, you know this all used to be a lot simpler!

FACE

Did you mean Direct X 9 instead of ActiveX9.0?

Try the Kaspersky and Panda ones if you have the time.

There are other programs available to check for trojans and dialers
specifically.

Do you use a software firewall such as the free ZA ?
Will TrendMicro work now?

There are some free anti-virus programs that seem to work according to
people posting in the anti-virus ngs.
Two of them are Avast and AVG.
Hopefully someone else will respond about your ports and your IE
settings (which look OK to me even though I put Disable for
"Initialize and run activeX controls not marked as safe" but 'Prompt'
lets you choose).
PS: Consider upgrading IE to the latest version.

"FACE" wrote in message
...
On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 01:00:02 GMT, "Buffalo"

in microsoft.public.win98.performance wrote:


"FACE" wrote in message
.. .
On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 15:41:10 GMT, "Buffalo"

in microsoft.public.win98.performance wrote:


"FACE" wrote in message
.. .
On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 09:54:53 -0400, FACE
in
microsoft.public.win98.performance wrote:

Can someone suggest a free 0nline virus scanner OTHER THAN
Trendmicro/Housecall?


Reason for "OTHER THAN" is that IE will not download the
setupex
file from
trendmicro. It gets to about 5% and stops.

Netscape would download it but not WIN would not run the
"setupex"
program
past extracting files -- said it could not find the Netscape
directory
(which I pointed it to) and then said it could not find the
plugins
directory under Netscape. (which is there, albeit empty)

Google coughs up numerous 'free scan' sites -- but who to
trust?

My IE internet settings for Internet Zone -- where trendmicro
shows
up in
the lower right of IE 5.0 window -- having to do with ActiveX:

Download signed ActiveX controls
o Prompt

Download unsigned ActiveX controls
o Prompt

Initialize and run activeX controls not marked as safe
o Prompt

Run ActiveX controls and plugins
o Enable

Script ActiveX controls marked safe for scripting
o Enable

For IE, It is unsigned and I answered yes to the prompt to
install
and run
and chose c:\install for a directory. Did not work. :-)


FACE

Online Antivirus scanners:
--------------------------
http://housecall.trendmicro.com/hous...start_corp.asp
http://www.kaspersky.com/remoteviruschk.html
http://security.symantec.com/sscv6/default.asp
http://www.pandasoftware.com/activescan/activescan.asp
http://commandondemand.com/eval/index.cfm
http://www.ravantivirus.com/scan/ [See **]
http://www.bitdefender.com/scan/licence.php
http://www.pcpitstop.com/antivirus/default.asp
http://scan.sygatetech.com/prestealthscan.html

** Caveat:
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archiv...3-07/0240.html


Thanks. I suppose all of the above (except the caveat) are
trustworthy.

I chose and ran Symantec from your list.

FACE
They're all trustworthy.
Find anything?


Nope. Huge download, over 50k files checked ..... 0 infected.
I did note that Symantec did not check within archives (zips) -- and
the
info screen said as much -- since I have held a trojan containing
zip file
just to be sure that the online AV was working. (Trendmicro always
finds it.
:-))

I guess every coupla months I decide that something must be wrong.
I used to run the trendmicro but since it would not today, i
immediately
decided that I must have a real mcnasty stopping it. G

I had run Spybot S&D and AdAware.

Yesterday I had really slow internet response, but a decent dial-up
connection speed and I checked the connections and had more than I
could
account for(about 6 or 7). But all but two were numeric IPs -- no
domain
names. The 2 domain names were valid for what i was doing.

(Does port 19999 mean anything in particular?)

Only thing that has changed in my system since I last ran Trendmicro
was
that I updated WIN98 SE for the first time with the microsoft
updates -- I
downloaded and the system applied 9 out of 11, IIRC.
One that I did not get was ActiveX 9.0.

Hey, you know this all used to be a lot simpler!

FACE

Did you mean Direct X 9 instead of ActiveX9.0?

Try the Kaspersky and Panda ones if you have the time.

There are other programs available to check for trojans and dialers
specifically.

Do you use a software firewall such as the free ZA ?
Will TrendMicro work now?

There are some free anti-virus programs that seem to work according to
people posting in the anti-virus ngs.
Two of them are Avast and AVG.
Hopefully someone else will respond about your ports and your IE
settings (which look OK to me even though I put Disable for
"Initialize and run activeX controls not marked as safe" but 'Prompt'
lets you choose).
PS: Consider upgrading IE to the latest version.

On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 14:43:50 GMT, "Buffalo"
in microsoft.public.win98.performance wrote:



I chose and ran Symantec from your list.

FACE
They're all trustworthy.
Find anything?


Nope. Huge download, over 50k files checked ..... 0 infected.
I did note that Symantec did not check within archives (zips) -- and
the
info screen said as much -- since I have held a trojan containing
zip file
just to be sure that the online AV was working. (Trendmicro always
finds it.
:-))

I guess every coupla months I decide that something must be wrong.
I used to run the trendmicro but since it would not today, i
immediately
decided that I must have a real mcnasty stopping it. G

I had run Spybot S&D and AdAware.

Yesterday I had really slow internet response, but a decent dial-up
connection speed and I checked the connections and had more than I
could
account for(about 6 or 7). But all but two were numeric IPs -- no
domain
names. The 2 domain names were valid for what i was doing.

(Does port 19999 mean anything in particular?)

Only thing that has changed in my system since I last ran Trendmicro
was
that I updated WIN98 SE for the first time with the microsoft
updates -- I
downloaded and the system applied 9 out of 11, IIRC.
One that I did not get was ActiveX 9.0.

Hey, you know this all used to be a lot simpler!

FACE

Did you mean Direct X 9 instead of ActiveX9.0?

Try the Kaspersky and Panda ones if you have the time.

There are other programs available to check for trojans and dialers
specifically.

Do you use a software firewall such as the free ZA ?
Will TrendMicro work now?

There are some free anti-virus programs that seem to work according to
people posting in the anti-virus ngs.
Two of them are Avast and AVG.
Hopefully someone else will respond about your ports and your IE
settings (which look OK to me even though I put Disable for
"Initialize and run activeX controls not marked as safe" but 'Prompt'
lets you choose).
PS: Consider upgrading IE to the latest version.


If it is "Direct X 9.0" available from Microsoft then I am sure that is it.
That and one other I saw as unnecessary.

I do not have a firewall. I have not tried Trendmicro again. I originally
tried it several times...disabling Spyguard, rebooting, etc., "just in
case".

My experience with IE 6.0 was much less than good -- no doubt that of others
will differ. I believe that Trendmicro asks for 4.7 or better.

FACE

On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 14:43:50 GMT, "Buffalo"
in microsoft.public.win98.performance wrote:



I chose and ran Symantec from your list.

FACE
They're all trustworthy.
Find anything?


Nope. Huge download, over 50k files checked ..... 0 infected.
I did note that Symantec did not check within archives (zips) -- and
the
info screen said as much -- since I have held a trojan containing
zip file
just to be sure that the online AV was working. (Trendmicro always
finds it.
:-))

I guess every coupla months I decide that something must be wrong.
I used to run the trendmicro but since it would not today, i
immediately
decided that I must have a real mcnasty stopping it. G

I had run Spybot S&D and AdAware.

Yesterday I had really slow internet response, but a decent dial-up
connection speed and I checked the connections and had more than I
could
account for(about 6 or 7). But all but two were numeric IPs -- no
domain
names. The 2 domain names were valid for what i was doing.

(Does port 19999 mean anything in particular?)

Only thing that has changed in my system since I last ran Trendmicro
was
that I updated WIN98 SE for the first time with the microsoft
updates -- I
downloaded and the system applied 9 out of 11, IIRC.
One that I did not get was ActiveX 9.0.

Hey, you know this all used to be a lot simpler!

FACE

Did you mean Direct X 9 instead of ActiveX9.0?

Try the Kaspersky and Panda ones if you have the time.

There are other programs available to check for trojans and dialers
specifically.

Do you use a software firewall such as the free ZA ?
Will TrendMicro work now?

There are some free anti-virus programs that seem to work according to
people posting in the anti-virus ngs.
Two of them are Avast and AVG.
Hopefully someone else will respond about your ports and your IE
settings (which look OK to me even though I put Disable for
"Initialize and run activeX controls not marked as safe" but 'Prompt'
lets you choose).
PS: Consider upgrading IE to the latest version.


If it is "Direct X 9.0" available from Microsoft then I am sure that is it.
That and one other I saw as unnecessary.

I do not have a firewall. I have not tried Trendmicro again. I originally
tried it several times...disabling Spyguard, rebooting, etc., "just in
case".

My experience with IE 6.0 was much less than good -- no doubt that of others
will differ. I believe that Trendmicro asks for 4.7 or better.

FACE

OH!

I would prefer to keep critical updates always up to date and never update a
lot at once and NEVER update drivers and other things e.g.directX only with
great caution.

"FACE" wrote in message
...
It was the first time I had updated this SE system at all.

FACE


On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 04:32:35 -0000, "SFB - KB3MM"
in
microsoft.public.win98.performance wrote:

That seems like a lot f updates unless you havent updated for quite a
while.

"FACE" wrote in message
.. .


Only thing that has changed in my system since I last ran Trendmicro
was
that I updated WIN98 SE for the first time with the microsoft
updates -- I
downloaded and the system applied 9 out of 11, IIRC.
One that I did not get was ActiveX 9.0.

Hey, you know this all used to be a lot simpler!

FACE