nightshade, you're being a pain repointing over and over to this...
If you don't trust Alwil team will keep its word (and the support),why don't you just stay without an antivirus? 
There is no reason to come again with this hopes, or finger crossed... Trust them! They're a serious company.
Is this a forum? or is this a forum?
I am quite at liberty to post to other posts on here, you are acting against forum rules pin pointing me out all the time.
Please tell me where I said I didnt trust Alwil, show me where I said this or retract your post accusing me of this!
why don't you just stay without an antivirus?
What a crazy thing to say!
Would you like to go on without an AV Program, I think not!
Nobody has said for sure that the support will definitely continue, therefore I see no problem with any posts relating to this on here.
This will be the last that I post on this subject, I will leave it up to someone else if they so wish.
Sorry if I have been a pain, but I thought that was a mods job to try and rest fears without being dogmatic.
Finally, I am aware that Alwil are a serious company.
Now, I haven't been following this thread per se. I just read a couple of posts. So hopefully I won't be accused of NOT having all the facts. But, nightshade, from what I can see and from what I understand, YES ... this IS a Forum and as long as we're NOT attacking another Poster or Posters, we ARE allowed to come in here and comment on and respectfully show concern for whatever issue affects us, our computer ... OUR computer security.
Alwil IS a serious company. But, I'm sure even serious companies ... just as politicians and entire governments, CAN change their mind, their strategy, their direction, their stance on something, regardless of what was at one point said or alluded to. If in the very latter stages of some company's project brainstorming, some factor finally tips the scales over a certain threshold ... a company CAN and WILL flip flop if need be.
I very distinctly remember some years back, a certain "Serious" company where I worked, held a company-wide meeting to squelch rumors. We asked the Big Cheeses point blank if the company was closing. They stood there and looked us in the eye and said NO. A week or two later, BAMM! The company makes it official that they're closing.
So, I'm right there with you, nightshade. As long as Alwil doesn't make any
official announcement, all we know is that here soon, avast! will be taking a Shot. The ball will be on its way to the basket ... but, none of us will know until later in the year whether it will be an Airball ... or a Nothing But Net, Game-winning
SCORE for continued Windows 98 Support by avast!
If in a couple of months we luck out and avast! does provide us Win98 Users some semblance of an Anti-Virus Security Umbrella
sans any Firewall and revolutionary New Bells & Whistles, we'll sure take it and be very appreciative. If avast! throws us out of the arena and into the rain
sans ANY Malware umbrella of any kind, we won't have any choice but to look for another Team.
But, Ehhh, let's think positive, nightshade. avast! WILL continue support for Win98, just NOT in the full-blown Cyber Galactic travel Warp Factor-engined version that avast! 5 might be. They can't pass up on the golden opportunity to pick up ground on and breathe down the neck of AVG by covering the Win98 contingent!
