scbs29 wrote:

For my own amusement and to play old games I have installed Win Me
into VMware player.
Does anyone know of a free anti-virus product that is still available
for Win Me ?
It is unlikely that it will be connected to the internet but best to
make sure.

You should have posted (or cross-posted) your question to a win-98
newsgroup. (but not win-me, because those groups are dead).

Norton Anti-virus 2002 functions perfectly fine as an AV program for
win-9x/me. Once you install it, you can download something called the
"intelligent updater" file which will give NAV-2002 the most current
symantec scan engine and viral definitions.

I can post download links for Norton System Works 2002 (which includes
NAV 2002) if you want - just ask.

Once you install NAV 2002, it will accept viral definition updates for a
year. After that, if you want it to accept new definition files, you'll
have to re-install it (and delete the file "catalog.livesubscribe") to
regain another year of free use.

All that said, you really don't need to run any antivirus program on
win-9x/me systems. Not today, and not for the past 7 years. Because
there has been no malware in circulation (either browser-based or
file-based) that runs on win-9x/me systems. All windoze malware for the
past 7 years is designed only for win-NT based systems. They have no
capacity to recover from errors when they execute on win-9x/me systems.