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anti-virus for Win Me ?
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. |
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