home bbs files messages ]

Forums before death by AOL, social media and spammers... "We can't have nice things"

   alt.os.windows95      Thought this was overrated, OS/2 rocked      679 messages   

[   << oldest   |   < older   |   list   |   newer >   |   newest >>   ]

   Message 525 of 679   
   norm to All   
   Re: Anyone using AVG 7 Antivirus Free ve   
   23 Apr 05 13:38:34   
   
   XPost: microsoft.public.win95.general.discussion, alt.windows95   
   From: dontreplyhere@ok.com   
      
   On Sat, 16 Apr 2005 00:35:02 GMT, Ron Martell    
   wrote:   
      
   >MikeJones@nomail.edu wrote:   
   >   
   >>I was using version 6, recommended by people here. They stopped making new   
   virus   
   >>definitions for version 6 and require version 7 to get updated virus lists.   
   I tried Google   
   >>Groups and found little discussion, one post, about the new version and  it   
   wasn't   
   >>positive.   
   >>   
   >>Are people using it. Does it wreck your computer? Does it work?   
   >>   
   >>There was an ominous message at the grisoft site about the System Failure   
   problem being   
   >>fixed. ;-) I'm always cautious about installing new software because you   
   don't really know   
   >>what it's going to do especially on Windows 95 which few people still use.   
   >>   
   >>I'm using Windows 95b on a Dell Dimension 300 MHz Pentium 2.   
   >>   
   >>Thank you.   
   >   
   >It is not listed as being Windows 95 compatible and it has been   
   >problematic for at least some of the Windows 95 users who have tried   
   >it   
      
   ......SNIP   
      
   The PDF guide states it should work with W95 if IE is 5. 1 or above.   
      
   Just tried it (V7) on my W95 os2.1 and it runs fine. Took 60min for   
   full scan an my old PC. No virus found.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

[   << oldest   |   < older   |   list   |   newer >   |   newest >>   ]


(c) 1994,  bbs@darkrealms.ca