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More info?)
Please keep adding to this thread as you find more antivirus programs for
Windows 95.
I need an antivirus program for a Win95a laptop (preferably free but I'll
consider shareware versions). It is a Compaq LTE5100.
This antivirus is needed very soon. I am about to attempt an Internet
Explorer and Outlook Express repair on my WinMe desktop computer. In case of
problems during the fixes and I can't get IE/OE back, this Win95 laptop can
access the Internet temporarily so I can get on the web, get email, and
access the newsgroups. I would feel more comfortable if this machine had
some kind of antivirus protection.
The early version of the operating system, low memory, slow processor speed,
and the fact that it has no CD drive may limit my options. I believe it has
DUN 1.4 and the Winsock y2k update, but I'm not sure. Is there any way to
check? Here are the specs.
Windows 95a
Version 4.00.950a
Pentium I, 90Mhz
24MB RAM
1GB hard drive (628MB free)
IE 5.00.2919.630715
IE 261255;269368;265258;254902;248120
OE 5.00.2919.6600
DirectX 8.0a
Floppy drive
No CDROM drive
No USB capability (USB requires 32-bit CardBus)
16-bit PCMCIA slots (not 32-bit CardBus)
Motorola Mariner 28k data/fax/lan modem 10/100 combo card (high-speed DSL
access)
The laptop is connected to my WinMe PC through a network. It can access the
DSL and hardware firewall of my router, so the laptop's 28k dial-up modem is
not needed except for the LAN part of it. This Win95 computer has no
protection aside from the router's hardware firewall. It's generally not
used for Internet except as a backup.
Norton AntiVirus (or Norton SystemWorks) requires Win95b or higher. Ad-Aware
will not work on this PC either because it requires Win98 or higher. Spybot
will work, but it is not installed. I want to see how much disk space is
left after antivirus is installed. The largest program on the laptop is
Office 97, which is essential. It also has Acrobat Reader 4.0, WinZip 6.2,
XnView 1.70.4, a few small icon programs, an address book program, and some
third-party system tools.
In order to install Office 97, I cannot remember if I installed it from 41
disks or if I copied the CDROM through the network to the laptop's hard
drive and installed it from there. If the latter, I deleted the CD files
after install to recover disk space, so if my Office installation ever needs
to use a feature that's not currently installed, I am out of luck.
The MicroWorld Escan program mentioned below will not work on my system, not
enough memory. F-Prot for DOS may have a problem also because its files and
definitions won't fit on a single floppy, and I have no CD drive. I have
written to their support to ask about a workaround for that. I have written
to NOD32 to ask them about their system requirements.
Please keep adding to this thread as you find more antivirus programs for
Windows 95, hopefully I'll find one for Win95a that will work with my
system.
"W Johnson" <gandulfini@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:cru77f$hpc$1@news6.svr.pol.co.uk...
> Just in case anyone else is looking, I have found the following Antivirus
> products that will work with Windows 95 all of which have good
reputations:
>
> NOD32 (based on KAV) http://www.nod32.com/
>
> Microworld Escan
http://www.mwti.net (minimum Pentium with 32-64 MB RAM
for
> basic Antivirus, 64 MB for security suite with email scanning)
>
> Fprot http://www.f-prot.com/ Free DOS command line scanner (Windows
version
> may work, ambiguous info from their site "Because F-Prot Antivirus for
> Windows is designed to use the absolute minimum of your system's
resources,
> the program runs on any computer running the Windows 98 Operating system
or
> later. F-Prot Antivirus for Windows requires Microsoft Internet Explorer
> version 4.0 or later for successful installation and updating of virus
> signature files. This is of particular note to users of Windows 95 and
> Windows NT who may have earlier versions of Internet Explorer installed."
>
> Cheers,
>
> Will
>
>