AV for 3rd World country

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Rob v. Albada

Hi,

I will be in a 3rd World country for the next 4 months.
I will not have access to internet apart from my visits to an Internet
Café.
My computer runs Windows-98 (for technical reasons which are not
relevant here).
I will receive files from others, some of which may be infected by a
virus.
Therefore I am looking for an an antivirus programme which does not
need to be activated via internet or updated via an internet
connection.
I want to download the updates from a computer in an Internet café,
store them on a floppy and take them home to install them.
Any suggestions?

Kind regards,

Rob.
 
Rob v. Albada said:
I will receive files from others, some of which may be infected
by a virus.
I want to download the updates from a computer in an Internet
café, store them on a floppy and take them home to install them.
Any suggestions?
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If you were to leave for this third-world country with an updated
anti-virus program, it's not very likely that during the 4 months you
are there that you would encounter files from others that would be
infected with a completely new virus or trojan.

I would recommend that you leave with updated AV software, and that
when you receive the questionable files that you take them to the
internet cafe and submit them to Virus Total (www.virustotal.com).
That way you can scan them with 3 dozen different and up-to-date AV
applications.
 
Rob said:
Hi,

I will be in a 3rd World country for the next 4 months.
I will not have access to internet apart from my visits to an Internet
Café.
My computer runs Windows-98 (for technical reasons which are not
relevant here).
I will receive files from others, some of which may be infected by a
virus.
Therefore I am looking for an an antivirus programme which does not
need to be activated via internet or updated via an internet
connection.
I want to download the updates from a computer in an Internet café,
store them on a floppy and take them home to install them.
Any suggestions?

Kind regards,

Rob.
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i think norton has a definition update you can download and run manualy
but i haven't used it in a long time. i would be a careful about the net
cafes computer you don't know what might be on it.
 
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