re: antivirus AVG free version ending support for Win98 Wednesday, August 20, 2008 at 3:04 pm Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Kiwi (2111 messages posted) Hmmm? What level of hardware was it that was affected adversely? I have a couple of oldies I can run Win98 on, and still do so, occasionally (XP 2600 in an Abit NF7 MB, and an XP 3000 in an Asus A7N8X Deluxe), and I'm quite sure I've run those using Avast, and W98, and hadn't seen any great degradation. On the other hand, I've had no reason to run the PC with a Duron 900 in it for a long time. I'm not sure I've swapped out AVG on that one yet. Maybe I'll have an unpleasant experience when I do? . Kiwi ** On Wednesday, August 20, 2008 at 6:54 am, Alan Masterman wrote: >The only comment I would add, Samantha, is that I agree with Bob that Avast is probably >the most effective protection which is still compatible with Win98; but in my experience >it does affect system performance quite noticeably. I don't know anything about >Superantispyware, but if you are still running a Win98 era computer, I would certainly >give it a run, because it may affect your system performance less severely. Written in response to: re: antivirus AVG free version ending support for Win98 (Alan Masterman: Wednesday, August 20, 2008 at 6:54 am) Responses to this message: re: antivirus AVG free version ending support for Win98 (George Cowley: Wednesday, August 20, 2008 at 5:05 pm) All messages in this thread [show all] antivirus AVG free version ending support for Win98 (samantha: Tue, Aug 19, 2008, 1:14 pm) re: antivirus AVG free version ending support for Win98 (gewg_: Tue, Aug 19, 2008, 3:46 pm) re: antivirus AVG free version ending support for Win98 (Alan Masterman: Wed, Aug 20, 2008, 7:19 am) Alternatives to easily-infected OSes (gewg_: Wed, Aug 20, 2008, 10:35 am) re: antivirus AVG free version ending support for Win98 (bob wells: Wed, Aug 20, 2008, 8:53 am) re: antivirus AVG free version ending support for Win98 (gewg_: Wed, Aug 20, 2008, 10:36 am) re: antivirus AVG free version ending support for Win98 (bob wells: Wed, Aug 20, 2008, 11:15 am) Working around Microsoft's insecurities (gewg_: Wed, Aug 20, 2008, 11:49 am) re: Working around Microsoft's insecurities (bob wells: Wed, Aug 20, 2008, 1:51 pm) re: Working around Microsoft's insecurities (gewg_: Wed, Aug 20, 2008, 2:13 pm) re: Working around Microsoft's insecurities (bob wells: Wed, Aug 20, 2008, 2:38 pm) XP (and M$ warez) vs alternatives (gewg_: Wed, Aug 20, 2008, 6:05 pm) re: XP (and M$ warez) vs alternatives (bob wells: Wed, Aug 20, 2008, 7:46 pm) re: XP (and whatever MS OS) vs various non-MS (Kiwi: Fri, Aug 22, 2008, 11:48 am) re: XP (and whatever MS OS) vs various non-MS (gewg_: Fri, Aug 22, 2008, 2:24 pm) re: Working around Microsoft's insecurities (appleoddity: Fri, Aug 22, 2008, 6:50 pm) re: Working around Microsoft's insecurities (gewg_: Fri, Aug 22, 2008, 7:16 pm) re: antivirus AVG free version ending support for Win98 (jack hall: Tue, Aug 19, 2008, 6:53 pm) re: antivirus AVG free version ending support for Win98 (bob wells: Tue, Aug 19, 2008, 7:52 pm) re: antivirus AVG free version ending support for Win98 (samantha: Wed, Aug 20, 2008, 5:24 am) re: antivirus AVG free version ending support for Win98 (Alan Masterman: Wed, Aug 20, 2008, 6:54 am) re: antivirus AVG free version ending support for Win98 (Kiwi: Wed, Aug 20, 2008, 3:04 pm) re: antivirus AVG free version ending support for Win98 (George Cowley: Wed, Aug 20, 2008, 5:05 pm) re: antivirus AVG free version ending support for Win98 (heh heh: Sun, Aug 24, 2008, 11:51 am) Bootable CD vs Dual-boot or new OS (was: ...AVG free...) (gewg_: Sun, Aug 24, 2008, 3:45 pm) re: Bootable CD vs Dual-boot or new OS (was: ...AVG free...) (appleoddity: Mon, Aug 25, 2008, 12:51 am) re: Bootable CD vs Dual-boot or new OS (was: ...AVG free...) (gewg_: Mon, Aug 25, 2008, 3:57 pm) re: Bootable CD vs Dual-boot or new OS (was: ...AVG free...) (GG: Mon, Sep 1, 2008, 3:28 am) re: Bootable CD vs Dual-boot or new OS (was: ...AVG free...) (heh heh: Mon, Sep 1, 2008, 7:18 pm) re: Bootable CD vs Dual-boot or new OS (was: ...AVG free...) (gewg_: Mon, Sep 1, 2008, 10:01 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 98 Discussion Forum