catgate Posted January 15, 2007 Report Share Posted January 15, 2007 1) AVG Free is going to be discontinued for we Luddites that have clung to W98SE (even if we have only clung to it as a fall-back). Is there still a comparable programme available? 2) Another question is this:- Since the more modern OSs run NTFS, as opposed to the olde worlde FAT32, are the older ones safer from attack than the new ones? I appreciate that W98 users are getting to be as rare as hens teeth, and therefore are no longer worthy prime targets, but are viri generally backward compatible? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan2273 Posted January 15, 2007 Report Share Posted January 15, 2007 This one will work with 98se.http://www.clamwin.com/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-pops- Posted January 15, 2007 Report Share Posted January 15, 2007 AVG Free version 7.5 (the new one) will work on W98SE.Get it here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarecrow Man Posted January 15, 2007 Report Share Posted January 15, 2007 Another question is this:- Since the more modern OSs run NTFS, as opposed to the olde worlde FAT32, are the older ones safer from attack than the new ones?Short answer: No.A Virus is not written for a specific filesystem, rather an OS. Meaning any filesystem used can still run a win32 application (exe). The file system just stores it in a different way.The only real difference between FAT32 and NTFS is the allocation table. Rather than storing a seperate entry for every file (fat32), NTFS can store all files in one table.Here's some more information: http://www.ntfs.com/ntfs_vs_fat.htm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catgate Posted January 15, 2007 Author Report Share Posted January 15, 2007 Thank you both, for that. I had more or less thrown the towl in with W98, but my duaghter is also a Luddite and she was voicing concern about the apparent situation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catgate Posted January 15, 2007 Author Report Share Posted January 15, 2007 Another question is this:- Since the more modern OSs run NTFS, as opposed to the olde worlde FAT32, are the older ones safer from attack than the new ones?Short answer: No.A Virus is not written for a specific filesystem, rather an OS. Meaning any filesystem used can still run a win32 application (exe). The file system just stores it in a different way.The only real difference between FAT32 and NTFS is the allocation table. Rather than storing a seperate entry for every file (fat32), NTFS can store all files in one table.Here's some more information: http://www.ntfs.com/ntfs_vs_fat.htmThanks for that SM.You posted this as I was typing the above. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dadyassa Posted January 15, 2007 Report Share Posted January 15, 2007 AVG Free version 7.5 (the new one) will work on W98SE.Get it here.Yeah I have it on my 98 machine that I used when this one was down. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catgate Posted January 15, 2007 Author Report Share Posted January 15, 2007 AVG Free version 7.5 (the new one) will work on W98SE.Get it here.Yeah I have it on my 98 machine that I used when this one was down.Thank dadyassa. Nice to know there is no problem. When I followed the link thrown up by the auto update option the AVG site, the site told me that what I was trying to download was not suitable. I shall have another try. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dadyassa Posted January 15, 2007 Report Share Posted January 15, 2007 AVG Free version 7.5 (the new one) will work on W98SE.Get it here.Yeah I have it on my 98 machine that I used when this one was down.Thank dadyassa. Nice to know there is no problem. When I followed the link thrown up by the auto update option the AVG site, the site told me that what I was trying to download was not suitable. I shall have another try.I downloaded it HERE and followed the instructions and did a repair option as they suggested.It took a while to download, I think it downloaded the whole program then just overwrote it and changed a few files to the new version. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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