I know this is an old question and doesn't have a difinitive answer,
but I'm going to ask anyway!

Have a laptop running Win98 and it will be donated to some needy
school person. I put Foxmail on it for an email client and I would
like to know which of these three anti-virus proggys would be best. I
use F-Prot for DOS, but it requires a little more hands-on than most
others. Since I don't know the level of the person that will
eventually get thing, I thought I'd put something easy to maintain and
use on. So, which would you guys recomment??
AVG
AVAST!
AntiVir PE

Would sure appriciate any input. Thanks!

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The Seabat

"seabat" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> I know this is an old question and doesn't have a difinitive answer,
> but I'm going to ask anyway!
>
> Have a laptop running Win98 and it will be donated to some needy
> school person. I put Foxmail on it for an email client and I would
> like to know which of these three anti-virus proggys would be best. I
> use F-Prot for DOS, but it requires a little more hands-on than most
> others. Since I don't know the level of the person that will
> eventually get thing, I thought I'd put something easy to maintain and
> use on. So, which would you guys recomment??
> AVG
> AVAST!
> AntiVir PE
>
> Would sure appriciate any input. Thanks!
>
> --
> The Seabat

AVG

seabat wrote:
> I know this is an old question and doesn't have a difinitive answer,
> but I'm going to ask anyway!
/snip
> AVG
> AVAST!
> AntiVir PE

Not really an old question; it gets asked several times a week!

AntiVir PE

AntiVir for sure.
"seabat" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>I know this is an old question and doesn't have a difinitive answer,
> but I'm going to ask anyway!
>
> Have a laptop running Win98 and it will be donated to some needy
> school person. I put Foxmail on it for an email client and I would
> like to know which of these three anti-virus proggys would be best. I
> use F-Prot for DOS, but it requires a little more hands-on than most
> others. Since I don't know the level of the person that will
> eventually get thing, I thought I'd put something easy to maintain and
> use on. So, which would you guys recomment??
> AVG
> AVAST!
> AntiVir PE
>
> Would sure appriciate any input. Thanks!
>
> --
> The Seabat

seabat wrote:

> I know this is an old question and doesn't have a difinitive answer,
> but I'm going to ask anyway!
>
> Have a laptop running Win98 and it will be donated to some needy
> school person. I put Foxmail on it for an email client and I would
> like to know which of these three anti-virus proggys would be best. I
> use F-Prot for DOS, but it requires a little more hands-on than most
> others. Since I don't know the level of the person that will
> eventually get thing, I thought I'd put something easy to maintain and
> use on. So, which would you guys recomment??
> AVG
> AVAST!
> AntiVir PE
>
> Would sure appriciate any input. Thanks!

Avast!!!
--
Jim

Tyneside - North East of England
To email me directly omit the X from my address

On 9/12/2004 9:32 PM Jim Scott came forth from the Plutonian shore and said:
> seabat wrote:
>
>
>>I know this is an old question and doesn't have a difinitive answer,
>>but I'm going to ask anyway!
>>
>>Have a laptop running Win98 and it will be donated to some needy
>>school person. I put Foxmail on it for an email client and I would
>>like to know which of these three anti-virus proggys would be best. I
>>use F-Prot for DOS, but it requires a little more hands-on than most
>>others. Since I don't know the level of the person that will
>>eventually get thing, I thought I'd put something easy to maintain and
>>use on. So, which would you guys recomment??
>>AVG
>>AVAST!
>>AntiVir PE
>>
>>Would sure appriciate any input. Thanks!
>
>
> Avast!!!

AVG and caution

Antidote


===___SSPPIITT...




> I know this is an old question and doesn't have a difinitive answer,
> but I'm going to ask anyway!
>
> Have a laptop running Win98 and it will be donated to some needy
> school person. I put Foxmail on it for an email client and I would
> like to know which of these three anti-virus proggys would be best. I
> use F-Prot for DOS, but it requires a little more hands-on than most
> others. Since I don't know the level of the person that will
> eventually get thing, I thought I'd put something easy to maintain and
> use on. So, which would you guys recomment??
> AVG
> AVAST!
> AntiVir PE
>
> Would sure appriciate any input. Thanks!
>

seabat <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
news:(E-Mail Removed):

> I know this is an old question and doesn't have a difinitive answer,
> but I'm going to ask anyway!
>
> Have a laptop running Win98 and it will be donated to some needy
> school person. I put Foxmail on it for an email client and I would
> like to know which of these three anti-virus proggys would be best.
> AVG
> AVAST!
> AntiVir PE
>

Assuming the laptop is quite old, I'll go for AntivirPE.
It's by far the least resource hungry of the three.
My pII 400 Mhz 128 Mb RAM system is stutters a bit running AVG7 or Avast,
while AntivirPE runs just fine.


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Rod
Listening to http://www.stubru.be/luisterlive/streams/high.html

AVG.

--
WebWalker

På 9 Dec 2004 13:38:57 GMT, skrev Rod <(E-Mail Removed)>:

> seabat <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
> news:(E-Mail Removed):
>
>
> Assuming the laptop is quite old, I'll go for AntivirPE.
> It's by far the least resource hungry of the three.
> My pII 400 Mhz 128 Mb RAM system is stutters a bit running AVG7 or Avast,
> while AntivirPE runs just fine.
>
I subscribe to this.
Besides, AntivirPE is a very effective and userfriendly AV, too.

AVG can proactively scan e-mails before they reach your in-box, but the
probable slowing down of your system doesn't make it worthwhile.
Avast has more functions than the others, but it's definitely not suitable
for older and slower systems.


--
JP Loken