XPost: microsoft.public.win95.general.discussion, alt.windows95   
      
   On Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:38:34 GMT, dontreplyhere@ok.com (norm) wrote:   
      
   >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.   
      
   Thanks, too bad I'm using IE 5.0. It's kind of strange that you have to have   
   IE to use a   
   virus scanner.   
      
   >   
   >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.   
      
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