Avast antivirus still updating for WinME

It looks like Avast is still supporting WinME.
What other virus scanners are continuing to update for WinME?

AVG Free v 7.5 is updating itself on both of my WinMe boxes, as I type - as
it has been doing regularly, whenever I remember to boot them!

Mart


"Greegor" wrote in message
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It looks like Avast is still supporting WinME.
What other virus scanners are continuing to update for WinME?

Like Mart I have AVG installed on my WinME machine and that's still getting
updates, in fact that will probably update itself again tomorrow when I turn
it on for it's weekly maintenance g

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"Greegor" wrote in message
...
It looks like Avast is still supporting WinME.
What other virus scanners are continuing to update for WinME?

Mart wrote
AVG Free v 7.5 is updating itself on both
of my WinMe boxes, as I type - as
it has been doing regularly, whenever
I remember to boot them!


On Nov 2, 9:51 am, "Joan Archer" wrote:
Like Mart I have AVG installed on my WinME
machine and that's still getting updates, in
fact that will probably update itself again
tomorrow when I turn it on for it's weekly
maintenance g

As I understand it, AVG 7.5 will cease to update at the end of the
year.

I will miss it also.

Friends occasionally bring me their old
computers to check over for them and
I commonly start by updating AVG on
my old WinME machine, putting their
hard disk on my machine and virus
scanning it with AVG 7.5.

It occurs to me that using one of my
newer machines with WinXP and AVG 8
might not scan the older WinME boot drives
in a satisfactory way.

On an XP machine installation of AVG
(or any virus scanner) WHY would virii
that only infect 98/SE/ME be defined
or recognized on the WinXP machine?

In addition, while there will undoubtedly
be a few NEW virii that attack WinME/98/SE,
WHY would they be added to an antivirus
database for a WinXP (and above) system?