W98/ME support

[srob]

Hi

I need to buy an antivirus program for our company W98/Me machines to be updated through a proxy server, and I am considering Avast Pro 4.8.

Before I buy, could you tell me how long you intend to carry on supporting these operating systems.

Thanks

Regards

Stewart

[Vladimyr]

As far as I can tell, there is no plan to cease support for Win9X. Whenever it happens it will be out of necessity. I have avast! Pro on a 98SE PC and I'm expecting to be still using it in 2010 when the license expires (of course I may not still have 98SE by then) so I think you'd be safe with a 1 year license.
Note:Newer features of 4.8 like self-protection & anti-rootkit already do not function with 98SE/ME.

[srob]

Hi

Thanks for your reply, I'll have a look at the trail.

Regards

Stewart

[Lisandro]

There aren't that much antivirus solutions for Windows 9x nowadays...
You can stay with avast, you won't regret anyway

[srob]

Thanks

Trying the trial version at the moment to see how we go and then buy it if all Ok

Regards

[ardvark]

Hi...

Avast is one of the very few if not the only antivirus solution left that supports Windows 9x/ME. I don't think we are looking at these operating systems being supported by "up to date" software, in any way, for very much longer.

[nightshade]

Hi...

Avast is one of the very few if not the only antivirus solution left that supports Windows 9x/ME. I don't think we are looking at these operating systems being supported by "up to date" software, in any way, for very much longer.

And what makes you say this?

Some licenses are not due to expire for a couple of years, so I would expect the support to continue for some time to come.

Can someone in authority perhaps give us a better answer to this.

[nightshade]

There aren't that much antivirus solutions for Windows 9x nowadays...
You can stay with avast, you won't regret anyway

Tech/Vladimyr,

Should I need to worry about the support for 98? or will it be supported for the foreseeable future?

[Vladimyr]

Avast is one of the very few if not the only antivirus solution left that supports Windows 9x/ME. I don't think we are looking at these operating systems being supported by "up to date" software, in any way, for very much longer.

nightshade
ardvark's statement is counter to at least one recent event. Alwil devs modified avast! 4.8 to maintain Windows 95 compatibilty. http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=34998.0 It doesn't look to me like they are ldropping 9X support soon.

[nightshade]

nightshade
ardvark's statement is counter to at least one recent event.

Hi Vladimyr,

Not too sure what you meant by that sentence, and to which event you were referring to?

By the way I don't see any reference to that link you pasted in.

 http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=34998.0

[ardvark]

Hi...

Avast is one of the very few if not the only antivirus solution left that supports Windows 9x/ME. I don't think we are looking at these operating systems being supported by "up to date" software, in any way, for very much longer.

And what makes you say this?

Some licenses are not due to expire for a couple of years, so I would expect the support to continue for some time to come.

Can someone in authority perhaps give us a better answer to this.

Hi...

I think you misunderstood my meaning. 

I believe avast will continue support for Windows 9x/ME at least up until version 5, perhaps even beyond. We'll wait and see. However, how many other AV's, free or paid, can you think of that still support these operating systems? I know Clamwin and NOD32 still supports 9x/ME but that's about it. AVG and AntiVir no longer do.

Are there any others that still do that I don't know about?

Best Regards...

[Lisandro]

Can someone in authority perhaps give us a better answer to this.

As far we know, support to 'old' features will continue.
New features (or the ones restricted to the operational system, like boot time scanning for instance) won't be supported.

[Vladimyr]

Hi...

I think you misunderstood my meaning. 

I believe avast will continue support for Windows 9x/ME at least up until version 5, perhaps even beyond. We'll wait and see. However, how many other AV's, free or paid, can you think of that still support these operating systems? I know Clamwin and NOD32 still supports 9x/ME but that's about it. AVG and AntiVir no longer do.

Are there any others that still do that I don't know about?

Best Regards...

ardvark
I wasn't sure if you had meant support by software producers in general or avast! in particular, I ended up going for the latter. BTW, you can add Dr Web to the list. All I can say is that I get the "vibe" that 95-->ME support will continue with avast! 5, at least in a minimal way.

nightshade
I wasn't trying to be cryptic  . The "event" was the fix for the Win95 compatibility fix in 4.8.1195 as discussed in the "pasted" thread and announced in the revision history, 4.8.1195, May 12 2008, last item. Hope that's clearer.

[ardvark]

I wasn't sure if you had meant support by software producers in general or avast! in particular, I ended up going for the latter. BTW, you can add Dr Web to the list. All I can say is that I get the "vibe" that 95-->ME support will continue with avast! 5, at least in a minimal way.

Hi...

Thanks.

I didn't know about Dr. Web

As far as the free ones go, I think avast and Clamwin are about it.

Best Regards...