Avast! to Stop Support End of 2009

Greg wrote:
On Tue, 4 Aug 2009 19:03:52 -0400, "PCR" wrote:


glee wrote:
"philo" wrote in message
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dlsayremn wrote:
From post by ojn at Techuy's 31July2009. Checked for real.

Avast has added the following notice without much announcement.

See: http://www.avast.com/eng/system-requ...vast-home.html :

"Note: The operating systems Windows 95/98/Me/NT4 will be
supported until the end of 2009."


Yes, it has been announced that Avast will drop such support.


I have posted previously for Win98 users to keep an eye on Clam
Win.

It does have win98 support...but the present (development) version
does not have "real time" scanning. It's possible they will add
"real time" scanning in the future...so for a free AV program I'd
say Clam Win is worth looking into.

Well, I hope they also work on improving their detection rates, as
54% is not very good:
http://www.virus.gr/portal/en/conten...6%2C-1-21-june

How about this one...?...
49. Abacre ??d?s? version 1.4 - 0.00%

But I presume it does better on Mars where it seems to have come from!


A little off topic, but How do you manually update Norton 2002?

I can install an old version that I bought.

I've never had Norton. Others around here may know. Otherwise...
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&s...&aq=f&oq=&aqi=
Google has over 3 million mentionings of it.

http://www.computing.net/answers/win...ate/32419.html
Tom's Guide seems to discuss it.

Greg

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There may be humor in this post, and,
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Should things get worse after this,
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Greg wrote:

A little off topic, but How do you manually update Norton 2002?

I can install an old version that I bought.

As I've mentioned at least a dozen times in this newsgroup, NAV 2002 is
still a viable and up-to-date alternative for an AV solution for PC's
running Windows 98.

Once you instal NAV 2002, you have 1 year to use it before it expires
itself and refuses to incorporate new virus definitions. That can
easily be overcome by simply deleting the file "catalog.livesubscribe"
and re-installing it, giving you another year of functionality.

Once you install NAV 2002, it has a built-in function to perform a "Live
Update". I haven't really tried that for about a year, but it should at
least perform one or two rounds of updating itself. After that, any
further attempts to perform a live update will simply result in the
message "NAV is fully up to date" or similar.

If NAV 2002 fails to update itself, you can always download something
called the "Symantec intelligent updater" package, as found he

http://www.symantec.com/business/sec....jsp?gid=savce

What you want is this file: 20090922-017-i32.exe which can be found
he

http://definitions.symantec.com/defs...22-017-i32.exe

Note that that file is today's release of the updater package.
Tommorrow will be a different release, etc. You will have to manually
obtain the release yourself, as frequently (or infrequently) as you want
it.

This link:

ftp://ftp.symantec.com/public/englis...ymcdefsi32.exe

Will always point to the _current_ updater package, so you don't have to
seek out the correct URL for the package based on the current date.

Greg wrote:

A little off topic, but How do you manually update Norton 2002?

I can install an old version that I bought.

As I've mentioned at least a dozen times in this newsgroup, NAV 2002 is
still a viable and up-to-date alternative for an AV solution for PC's
running Windows 98.

Once you instal NAV 2002, you have 1 year to use it before it expires
itself and refuses to incorporate new virus definitions. That can
easily be overcome by simply deleting the file "catalog.livesubscribe"
and re-installing it, giving you another year of functionality.

Once you install NAV 2002, it has a built-in function to perform a "Live
Update". I haven't really tried that for about a year, but it should at
least perform one or two rounds of updating itself. After that, any
further attempts to perform a live update will simply result in the
message "NAV is fully up to date" or similar.

If NAV 2002 fails to update itself, you can always download something
called the "Symantec intelligent updater" package, as found he

http://www.symantec.com/business/sec....jsp?gid=savce

What you want is this file: 20090922-017-i32.exe which can be found
he

http://definitions.symantec.com/defs...22-017-i32.exe

Note that that file is today's release of the updater package.
Tommorrow will be a different release, etc. You will have to manually
obtain the release yourself, as frequently (or infrequently) as you want
it.

This link:

ftp://ftp.symantec.com/public/englis...ymcdefsi32.exe

Will always point to the _current_ updater package, so you don't have to
seek out the correct URL for the package based on the current date.