(Msg. 9) Posted: Sun Aug 24, 2008 3:09 am
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On Fri, 22 Aug 2008 14:35:44 -0600, Charlie Leo wrote:
(Msg. 10) Posted: Sun Aug 24, 2008 12:36 pm
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>On Sat, 23 Aug 2008 18:40:33 -0400, "Beauregard T. Shagnasty" wrote:
>Charliec wrote:
>
>> The one thing missing since I uninstalled Norton Internet Security and
>> installed AVG Free is incoming email scanning. It's set to scan
>> incoming emails and will scan those coming in to Outlook. But I
>> don't use Outlook for email, I use a program called Forte Agent which
>> provide very good email as well as Newsgroup Reader.
>>
>> I cannot seem to get AVG to scan emails coming into Agent.
>
>That's probably a Good Thing™. You don't need to scan incoming and
>outgoing email.
>
>http://tekrider.net/general/misctips.php#avscan
(Msg. 11) Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2008 8:10 am
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Kayman wrote:
[snip]
> Better alternative is:
> Avira AntiVir® Personal - FREE Antivirus
> http://www.free-av.com/ > (The free version won't scan your emails.)
[snip]
Just a note to Win98 users, Avira AntiVir will NOT work on your 98 machine
so don't waste your time trying it.
I spent 1/2hr getting totally rid of AVG and went to install Avira and got a
runtime error. Avira does not indicate on its home page that it will not
work with Win98, at least not that I could see (no minimum system
requirements stated). All told, I wasted about an hour of my time and
finally installed the free version of Avast.
However, I may try Avira on my Win2k machine instead of the NSW2003Pro that
is on there now.
Dual-boot Win98SE-Win2000Pro.
(Msg. 12) Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2008 4:30 pm
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(Msg. 13) Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2008 4:31 pm
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> On Wed, 27 Aug 2008 08:10:19 -0600, "Buffalo"
>> Just a note to Win98 users, Avira AntiVir will NOT work on your 98
>> machine so don't waste your time trying it.
>> I spent 1/2hr getting totally rid of AVG and went to install Avira
>> and got a runtime error. Avira does not indicate on its home page
>> that it will not work with Win98, at least not that I could see (no
>> minimum system requirements stated).
>
>
> http://www.free-av.com/en/download/download_servers.php > Avira AntiVir Personal - FREE Antivirus
> Windows 2000, XP, XP 64 Bit, Vista 32 Bit and 64 Bit\
(Msg. 14) Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2008 4:31 pm
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From: "FredW >"
| On Wed, 27 Aug 2008 08:10:19 -0600, "Buffalo"
| wrote:
>>Kayman wrote:
>>[snip]
>>> Better alternative is:
>>> Avira AntiVir® Personal - FREE Antivirus
>>> http://www.free-av.com/ >>> (The free version won't scan your emails.)
>>[snip]
>>Just a note to Win98 users, Avira AntiVir will NOT work on your 98 machine
>>so don't waste your time trying it.
>>I spent 1/2hr getting totally rid of AVG and went to install Avira and got a
>>runtime error. Avira does not indicate on its home page that it will not
>>work with Win98, at least not that I could see (no minimum system
>>requirements stated).
(Msg. 15) Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2008 4:31 pm
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David H. Lipman wrote:
> From: "FredW >"
>
>> On Wed, 27 Aug 2008 08:10:19 -0600, "Buffalo"
>> wrote:
>
>
>
>>> Kayman wrote:
>>> [snip]
>>>> Better alternative is:
>>>> Avira AntiVir® Personal - FREE Antivirus
>>>> http://www.free-av.com/ >>>> (The free version won't scan your emails.)
>>> [snip]
>
>>> Just a note to Win98 users, Avira AntiVir will NOT work on your 98
>>> machine so don't waste your time trying it.
>>> I spent 1/2hr getting totally rid of AVG and went to install Avira
>>> and got a runtime error. Avira does not indicate on its home page
>>> that it will not work with Win98, at least not that I could see (no
>>> minimum system requirements stated).
>
>
>> http://www.free-av.com/en/download/download_servers.php >> Avira AntiVir Personal - FREE Antivirus
>> Windows 2000, XP, XP 64 Bit, Vista 32 Bit and 64 Bit
>
>> --
>> Fred W. (NL)
>
> It think Avira dropped support of Win9x/ME in April.
I believe you are correct, but they should list the minimum system
requirements on their HomePage for those that didn't see their announcements
earlier.
I believe it is called customer service.
Thanks again for the info, I always respect and learn from your comments.
Buffalo
(Msg. 16) Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2008 6:56 pm
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From: "Buffalo"
| I believe you are correct, but they should list the minimum system
| requirements on their HomePage for those that didn't see their announcements
| earlier.
| I believe it is called customer service.
| Thanks again for the info, I always respect and learn from your comments.
| Buffalo
Thanx for the kind words.
In this case I agree. They used to show two downloadable versions.
One for the Win9x/ME family and the other for the NT familiy members Win2K, WinXP and
Vista. Now they have rewritten those pages to use a third party download site and no
longer state which OS' in which the software is applicable. It is a shortsighted folly in
my view.
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