Is there an antivirus program for WinME?

Antrobus · External Since: Feb 18, 2007 Posts: 2

Symantec, Zonealarm and McAfee all have deserted WinME. Anybody know
where antivirus and firewalls are available?

David H. Lipman · External Since: Mar 14, 2004 Posts: 1835

From: "Antrobus"

| Symantec, Zonealarm and McAfee all have deserted WinME. Anybody know
| where antivirus and firewalls are available?

Avira AntiVir.

--
Dave
http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
http://www.ik-cs.com/got-a-virus.htm

Mike M1 · External Since: Jun 26, 2004 Posts: 4260

Antrobus wrote:

> Symantec, Zonealarm and McAfee all have deserted WinME. Anybody know
> where antivirus and firewalls are available?

There are plenty of AV applications available for Win Me including
Computer Associates eTrust and NOD32. Symantec's NAV never worked
correctly with Win Me with the result that it had effects worse than many
of the viruses that it claimed to stop. Other possibilities include
Avast! (free and paid for) and AVG (also free and paid for).

As for firewalls why not use an earlier version of ZA that is compatible
with Win Me? Most of the recent versions of ZA have simply added
unnecessary padding to the core.
--
Mike Maltby

Alias · External Since: Dec 02, 2006 Posts: 115

Antrobus wrote:
> Symantec, Zonealarm and McAfee all have deserted WinME. Anybody know
> where antivirus and firewalls are available?

Don't know about a firewall but Avast! works with ME:

http://avast.com/eng/download-avast-home.html

Alias

cornedbeef007-groups · External Since: Jun 08, 2006 Posts: 14

On Feb 19, 11:40 am, "Mike M" wrote:
> Antrobus wrote:
> > Symantec, Zonealarm and McAfee all have deserted WinME. Anybody know
> > where antivirus and firewalls are available?
>
> There are plenty of AV applications available for Win Me including
> Computer Associates eTrust and NOD32. Symantec's NAV never worked
> correctly with Win Me with the result that it had effects worse than many
> of the viruses that it claimed to stop. Other possibilities include
> Avast! (free and paid for) and AVG (also free and paid for).
>
> As for firewalls why not use an earlier version of ZA that is compatible
> with Win Me? Most of the recent versions of ZA have simply added
> unnecessary padding to the core.
> --
> Mike Maltby
>

You can get every version of ZoneAlarm Free ever relased from here
http://download.zonelabs.com/bin/free/information/znalm/zaReleaseHistory.html.
I know for a fact that the 5.5 branch worked fine on my WinME machine.
Good luck.
BarryG

Eric · External Since: Dec 05, 2006 Posts: 174

"Antrobus" wrote in message

> Symantec, Zonealarm and McAfee all have deserted WinME. Anybody know
> where antivirus and firewalls are available?

AOL is free and includes McAfee antivirus and firewall and anti-spyware
software.

MowGreen MVP · External Since: Jun 28, 2004 Posts: 212

AOL now offers ActiveVirusShield which is the Kaspersky engine and it
rates *extremely* high and performs *extremely* well :
http://www.activevirusshield.com/antivirus/freeav/index.adp?

I HIGHLY recommend it for 9x systems.

MowGreen [MVP 2003-2007]
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Eric wrote:

> "Antrobus" wrote in message
>
>
>>Symantec, Zonealarm and McAfee all have deserted WinME. Anybody know
>>where antivirus and firewalls are available?
>
>
> AOL is free and includes McAfee antivirus and firewall and anti-spyware
> software.
>
>