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446920 2006-04-17 08:27:00 Grandaughter has an old computer with Win 95a, 3gb harddrive, 128mb RAM and IE v3. She has just gone on line with it and I am trying to get a free antivirus to run on it. Problem AVG wants IE v5, Avast wants IE v4. Microsoft not interested in updating v3 to v5 or 6. Can anyone suggest a free antivirus that runs on IE v3. Query, instal Firefox. FrankS (257)
446921 2006-04-17 08:47:00 Windows 95A is too old really to do anything with it. You need at least Windows 95B, to get a respectable (?) OS, and there are updates available for this from Microsoft and other sites, and it will upgrade IE to version 5.5 SP2.

The only AV I know that is up to date and will run with 95A is F-Prot for DOS:

http://www.f-prot.com/

This would have to be run manually in DOS, it wont detect virus's whilst Windows is running.

Edit: I doubt very much whether Firefox will install.
Terry Porritt (14)
446922 2006-04-17 10:25:00 Grandaughter has an old computer with Win 95a, 3gb harddrive, 128mb RAM and IE v3. She has just gone on line with it and I am trying to get a free antivirus to run on it.
You'll have this hassle with anti-spyware too. I'd have a look for a copy of Win98 on Trademe and install that instead.
pctek (84)
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