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Old October 2nd 18, 03:20 AM posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
James Davis
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Default Anti-virus for ME

On Monday, October 1, 2018 at 5:04:30 PM UTC-7, 98 Guy wrote:
RTS wrote (in the basically defunct windows ME newsgroup):

Greetings Group.
I'm re-installing ME on an old laptop for some legacy software.
And was wondering if there any current anti-virus programs that will
still work on ME..


I've answered you in the past when you've asked this same question.

And my answer is still the same.

You don't need to be running any sort of anti-virus software for windows
9x/me. You haven't needed that for at least the past 10 years.

There are no browser exploits that are in use today (and quite frankly
there may never have been any) that can trip up a 9x/me system and cause
it to run exploit code or download secondary viral payload.

And I'd be very surprised if there was even any exploit code sent along
as an email attachment that you'd be fool enough to execute that would
run as intended on a 9x/me system today.

Have I explained myself?

Got any more questions?

And by the way, you'd be better off running win-9x with kernelEx and
with some other mods (like the extended ram hack) than you would be
running that abortion known as Windows Millenium.


Wow, you really are angry about ME! ;-)

What do you know about networking W98se running on MVPC-2007 on Windows 7 to the W7 Host? I have not been able to get W98se and W7 to see each other at all using the MS Loopback Adapter on W7. Tried all the networking W98 to W7 advise I could find online. None of it works for me.