ECN Forum Forums Technical Discussion Re: Computers and the Internet AntiVirus program for Win98 and Win2K?

How so?

Look, we use computers as well, we know exactly what they are like.

Update on my situation:

After the headaches with McAfee Antivirus, my Quickbooks and a few other things I'm giving up on Win 2k. There seems to be something wrong with the OS and I can't re-install or repair it.

I just bought a used (speedier) PC with XP Professional installed and am in the process of transferring data and installing the programs I use.

So far I like the speed (from P3/1000 to P4/3.2GHz), but still nostalgic about the PC I built and have upgraded/maintained for the last 10 years. (I still have a 5-1/4" floppy drive in it) ... but time to let go I guess .....

Bill

BTW, I was able to re-install McAfee and QB with no problems on the new machine.

I am running 2 systems side by side right now. I have a new 3.4g P4 Compaq (new to me anyway) that came bundled with XP Pro and I have my old 3.4 AMD machine running W/98. Yes the 98 machine is a whole lot faster apples to apples.
I ran the W/98 totally open for about 3 years, no virus scanner and no firewall. When I brought up the XP machine I got McAfee from AOL and ran it against both machines. The only hits I got were on downloads I never opened because I knew they were bad and 2 pieces of adware that came with software I bought. I think that if you are careful you probably will not get infected.