Re: Free avg spyware.
If your looking for Spyware protection try:
Spyware Blaster [protects against some access/installations, ActiveX,
immunization {sites, etc.}].
http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/
SpyBot Search and Destroy [search and remove, and immunization {sites,
etc.}].
http://www.spybot.info/ - choose your language
http://www.safer-networking.org/
Spybot-S&D 1.4 is not runnning on Windows 95. The next version will again be
fully compatible. Please use Spybot-S&D 1.3; Winsock update necessary
http://www.spybot.info/en/download/index.html
http://www.spybotupdates.com/files/spybotsd14.exe
The two together do a fairly good job, depending upon your Internet use of
course.
It might also be advisable to donate something to both of these parties,
more donations [with a comment on the OS you're using], perhaps longer
support for *dead* OSs.
--
MEB
http://peoplescounsel.orgfree.com
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| "Greg Rozelle" <invaild@invaild.com> wrote in message
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| >I am a little confused. Didn't they make a free avg spyware
| > program for windows 98?
|
|
| No. AVG Anti-Spyware (AVG-AS) was originally ewido Anti-Spyware before
Grisoft
| bought it, and it never installed on or ran on Windows 98 or ME.
|
|
| > I look at their system requirement. It did not say windows 2000/NT or
| > Xp. It just gave the very minimum requirements and did not list
| > the operating system.
|
|
| Have a look here:
| Supported Platforms:
|
http://www1.grisoft.com/doc/products-avg-anti-spyware/us/crp/2#details
| and
|
http://www.ewido.net/en/download/
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|
|
| > What did they stop support for windows 98 spyware? (I do not like XP
| > or Vista)
|
|
| They never had it.
|
|
| > I also notice
| >
http://www.download.com/AVG-Anti-Spyware/3000-8022_4-10610898.html
| >
| > That on this page it list 98.
|
|
| They are wrong, which is not unusal for them.
|
|
| > So for it to work, you must use the paid version. Am I correct?
|
|
| No, it does not work on any Win9x platform, never did....free or paid.
The
| Supported Platforms I linked above is for the paid and free versions.
|
|
| > I just hope a don't have to go back using f-prot for dos for my virus
| > protection. That would suck.
|
|
| What does virus protection have to do with anti-spyware? They are two
different
| types of program that do completely different things.
|
| F-Prot for DOS' days are numbered:
|
http://www.f-prot.com/products/home_use/dos/
|
| Once a Windows operating system is no longer supported by Microsoft,
vendors usually
| start dropping support over a period of time. Some will still work but
not be
| officially supported by the vendor; others will just stop working or
installing on
| the older platforms.
| --
| Glen Ventura, MS MVP Shell/User, A+
|
http://dts-l.org/
|
http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm
|