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Posted by dave on November 18, 2006, 10:54 pm
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The IT people at my university suggested that I try Avast! Home Edition
for firewall protection on my home PC. Home machine is 98SE and runs
Symantec AV Corp Edition downloaded from univ under their license. I
checked Avast site and they no longer support 98, "because MS is no
longer
supporting it". That seems a little odd, since Symantec is still
providing me with weekly updates for the AV program. Should I look for
a legacy version of Avast? If so, where? And, forgive newbie stupid
question, but if I not hosting a website, browse only "trusted sites",
and don't leave cmptr net-connected when I am not using it, why do I
need a firewall? Are there other recommended software firewalls that
still run on 98? I tried Norton once, and it messed things up so much
that it took me a long time to unscramble and get everything working
again.
Thanks in advance for helpful suggestions.
dave
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Posted by David H. Lipman on November 19, 2006, 8:45 am
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| The IT people at my university suggested that I try Avast! Home Edition
| for firewall protection on my home PC. Home machine is 98SE and runs
| Symantec AV Corp Edition downloaded from univ under their license. I
| checked Avast site and they no longer support 98, "because MS is no
| longer
| supporting it". That seems a little odd, since Symantec is still
| providing me with weekly updates for the AV program. Should I look for
| a legacy version of Avast? If so, where? And, forgive newbie stupid
| question, but if I not hosting a website, browse only "trusted sites",
| and don't leave cmptr net-connected when I am not using it, why do I
| need a firewall? Are there other recommended software firewalls that
| still run on 98? I tried Norton once, and it messed things up so much
| that it took me a long time to unscramble and get everything working
| again.
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| Thanks in advance for helpful suggestions.
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| dave
Use AntiVir. It is musch better anyway.
http://www.free-av.com/
--
Dave
http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
http://www.ik-cs.com/got-a-virus.htm
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