re: antivirus AVG free version ending support for Win98
Tuesday, August 19, 2008 at 3:46 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by gewg_
(3588 messages posted)
|Unfortunately I cannot upgrade my system to XP
| Samantha
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As I've said here before, these infections are WINDOZE-SPECIFIC
and if
you stop using Windoze[1], the threat from them disappears.
(No more anti-virus app / anti-spyware app / yada,yada,yada
to install/update/yada,yada,yada.)
|because of limited resources
|
That can still be an issue with a non-Windoze solution.
The (cutting-edge) variant I linked to above is also pretty resources-hungry,
but there are SEVERAL
other variants that will run on your *current* hardware[2]
while
still offering the immunity from infections.
|and not worth the trouble.
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The way I figure it, if you're going to have to learn a new OS anyway,
why give money to Micro$oft on top of that (when Linux is FREE).
|Could anybody recommend another free version of antivirus
|that will still support our Windows 98 OS ?
|
After AVG recently included a clueless/evil "feature",
AVG is on most folk's $#!+ List these days.
From the Usenet Archive More of that
The 1st of those Usenet links gives 2 alternates in the first post
and others are mentioned in the thread.
[1] Mac OS X is also Unix-based and is also immune from Windoze infections.
[2] You can boot to the "Live CD" of a Linux "distro"
and test-drive / practice with that Linux variant WITHOUT HAVING TO INSTALL IT.
If you have the drive space (or a spare drive bay and $10 for an old HDD),
you can set up Windoze/Linux as dual-boot
--with the goal of dumping MSFT completely(??).
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