Which Anti-Vi is best??

[seabat]

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!

 

[joe..bee]

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!

AVG

 

[Paul Urquhart]

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

 

[Joe67]

AntiVir for sure.

 

[Jim Scott]

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!!!

 

[Marko]

seabat wrote:




Avast!!!

AVG and caution

 

[Spitfire]

Antidote


===___SSPPIITT...

 

[Rod]

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.

 

[WebWalker]

AVG.

 

[JP Loken]

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.

 

[Duddits]

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!

Not exactly free but - free for 1 year
http://www.my-etrust.com/microsoft/
Do a custom install and install just the antivirus. Has automatic updates,
scan and Email protection.

regards

Dud

 

[PhotoDan]

I was using AVG but the new version kept giving me a 'Cannot update" message
so I changed to AntiVir PE. This is a neat, fast little application and it
doesn't use a lot of resources. Seems to use about half the memory of AVG.
Updates about daily.

 

[Lou]

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

AntiVir PE

Where can an English version of AntiVir PE be obtained?

Lou

 

[Paul Urquhart]

Where can an English version of AntiVir PE be obtained?

Lou

http://www.free-av.com/index.htm

click the download button

 

[southinwinter]

All at least OK and I use all on different pcs. AntiVir updates are slow on
a dial-up connect.

 

[Paul Urquhart]

All at least OK and I use all on different pcs. AntiVir updates are slow on
a dial-up connect.

AntiVir updates have been quicker lately. They are working on it.