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Avast not ME friendly?
Still on good old ME, looking for free replacement for AVG 7
antivirus due to go out of support any time. Very few alternatives, Avast seems like good bet, but seems to me I read in this NG a little while ago that ME and Avast Free do not get along. True? If so, any other alternatives besides ClamWin? |
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Avast not ME friendly?
I haven't found that at all. Admittedly our ME compact is not used too
often, however I just returned from a 2 week vacation using it daily, including Avast updates without any problems. hdoherty@NO SPAMns.sympatico.ca (Hugh Doherty) wrote in message ... Still on good old ME, looking for free replacement for AVG 7 antivirus due to go out of support any time. Very few alternatives, Avast seems like good bet, but seems to me I read in this NG a little while ago that ME and Avast Free do not get along. True? If so, any other alternatives besides ClamWin? |
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Avast not ME friendly?
Avast and Me get on fine other than that I seem to recall it inhibits the
creation of automatic system restore checkpoints. Not a problem if you instead remember to make your own manual checkpoints every so often. -- Mike Maltby hdoherty@NO SPAMns.sympatico.ca (Hugh Doherty) hdoherty@NO SPAMns.sympatico.ca (Hugh Doherty) wrote: Still on good old ME, looking for free replacement for AVG 7 antivirus due to go out of support any time. Very few alternatives, Avast seems like good bet, but seems to me I read in this NG a little while ago that ME and Avast Free do not get along. True? If so, any other alternatives besides ClamWin? |
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Avast not ME friendly?
Hugh Doherty wrote: Still on good old ME, looking for free replacement for AVG 7 antivirus due to go out of support any time. Very few alternatives, Avast seems like good bet, but seems to me I read in this NG a little while ago that ME and Avast Free do not get along. True? If so, any other alternatives besides ClamWin? Upgrade to win2000 |
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Avast not ME friendly?
wrote in message ... Hugh Doherty wrote: Still on good old ME, looking for free replacement for AVG 7 antivirus due to go out of support any time. Very few alternatives, Avast seems like good bet, but seems to me I read in this NG a little while ago that ME and Avast Free do not get along. True? If so, any other alternatives besides ClamWin? Upgrade to win2000 That would be an alternative, but Mike already answered 'not true' with different words. |
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Avast not ME friendly?
"webster72n" wrote in message ... wrote in message ... Hugh Doherty wrote: Still on good old ME, looking for free replacement for AVG 7 antivirus due to go out of support any time. Very few alternatives, Avast seems like good bet, but seems to me I read in this NG a little while ago that ME and Avast Free do not get along. True? If so, any other alternatives besides ClamWin? Upgrade to win2000 That would be an alternative, but Mike already answered 'not true' with different words. Also, of course, as has been noted so many times - if Larry the Lamb means it literally, well, you can't upgrade from Me to 2K. If he means it ironically it just brings to mind another - who recommends Linux to Win Me users though he used to use 2K himself. One is a home system, the other is a business system. 2K is not free so why would Win Me users want to shell out for a different operating system that merely looks reminiscent of Me but has just about none of the features that make Me different from 98? This would be one of those idiots who derogates System Restore for users they presumably think are too thick to be able to run Windows for any length of time without screwing it up. This is just one more comment from some drive-by trollster who thinks he's smart but isn't smart enough to 'get' humility. I daresay he's one of the legion now propagating what is effectively the urban legend of Me vying for title of 'Microsoft's worst operating system ever' or words to that effect. Another sheep in wolf's clothing. Shane |
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Avast not ME friendly?
"Shane" wrote in message ... "webster72n" wrote in message ... wrote in message ... Hugh Doherty wrote: Still on good old ME, looking for free replacement for AVG 7 antivirus due to go out of support any time. Very few alternatives, Avast seems like good bet, but seems to me I read in this NG a little while ago that ME and Avast Free do not get along. True? If so, any other alternatives besides ClamWin? Upgrade to win2000 That would be an alternative, but Mike already answered 'not true' with different words. Also, of course, as has been noted so many times - if Larry the Lamb means it literally, well, you can't upgrade from Me to 2K. If he means it ironically it just brings to mind another - who recommends Linux to Win Me users though he used to use 2K himself. One is a home system, the other is a business system. 2K is not free so why would Win Me users want to shell out for a different operating system that merely looks reminiscent of Me but has just about none of the features that make Me different from 98? This would be one of those idiots who derogates System Restore for users they presumably think are too thick to be able to run Windows for any length of time without screwing it up. This is just one more comment from some drive-by trollster who thinks he's smart but isn't smart enough to 'get' humility. I daresay he's one of the legion now propagating what is effectively the urban legend of Me vying for title of 'Microsoft's worst operating system ever' or words to that effect. Another sheep in wolf's clothing. Thanks for the insight. H. Shane |
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