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re: software Thursday, June 26, 2008 at 4:56 am Posted by Keith Stanier (1655 messages posted) DanTheMan wrote: |Hey, whats the best anti virus , anti spy ware and fire wall that will work on |windows ME. Hi Dan. I've used McAfee for 12 years without any problems or infections but I had problems installing the updates last year. I downloaded AVG Free Edition 7.5.519. It will have to be a 7.5 version because 8.0 is for WinNT. Installed it, updated it and did a full scan and it found a virus that McAfee didn't find. So which would you think is better? I don't use any anti-spyware or firewall on Win98SE because I don't need to, but there are various versions on FileHippo. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: software Thursday, June 26, 2008 at 7:21 am Posted by Steve (23810 messages posted) I would avoid the all in one products, they just bog down most Computers. Use one of the older Firewalls like Kerio 2.1, Firewalls just stealth a Computer, and don't need updating. The older Firewalls are just as good as the new Bloated ones that may not work on old Windows Platforms anyway. Lots of freeware Anti-Spyware are still around that work with WinME, and one of the freeware Antivirus Softwares [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: software Friday, June 27, 2008 at 7:45 am Posted by Alan Masterman (462 messages posted) Hi DanTheMan, I'm reluctant to appear as though I'm questioning anything Keith says, because he has solved so many problems for me without ever knowing it, but I would also recommend you consider Threatfire for your AV protection. It brings the smallest performance hit of any AV program I have used, seems to be about as good as AVG, and doesn't require updating every time you go online. Like AVG, it is free for personal use. Regarding spyware, most people think Spybot Search & Destroy is the best; it doesn't seem to involve any drag on performance and when I run a scan, it always finds something the others miss. On Thursday, June 26, 2008 at 4:56 am, Keith Stanier wrote: >DanTheMan wrote: >|Hey, whats the best anti virus , anti spy ware and fire wall that will work on >|windows ME. > >Hi Dan. > >I've used McAfee for 12 years without any problems or infections but I had problems >installing the updates last year. I downloaded AVG >Free Edition 7.5.519. It will have to be a 7.5 version because 8.0 is for WinNT. > >Installed it, updated it and did a full scan and it found a virus that McAfee didn't >find. So which would you think is better? > >I don't use any anti-spyware or firewall on Win98SE because I don't need to, but >there are various versions on FileHippo. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: software Monday, July 28, 2008 at 12:15 am Posted by DanTheMan (140 messages posted) but i looked at Threatfire before and it dont support windows me thanks for all the help guys [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows Me Discussion Forum