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re: AVG and JS/Downloader virus
Saturday, May 24, 2008 at 3:21 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by gerald Keene
(55 messages posted)
Thank you C K;
I had checked out Avast and their version8 doesn't support 98. Glad to find out
from you that the virus vault will still keep the virus contained.
Best Regards,
Gerald
On Saturday, May 24, 2008 at 2:30 pm, C K wrote:
>AVG will still run and work, it just won't be updated with new virus definitions
>or program updates. The virus will stay "locked up". It won't be released back
>onto the system even if you uninstall the program. It should ask you what you want
>to do with it when you uninstall the program, or you willl be able to manually delete
>where it stores the files...
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>AVAST ( http://www.avast.com/eng/avast_4_home.html ) is still supporting Win 9X
>but expect that all AV vendors will stop supporting Win 9X since MS is no longer
>updating the system, and Win 9X is less secure than NT systems just by the nature
>of it's old design.
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