Suggestion for free AV --- W98

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MB_

I have an old Gateway with W98.

I need to install an AV program.

Any recs for a FREE one?

MB
 
David said:
Can you please point me to that data Kurt...
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can you please format your posts properly so that context can be
preserved? i trimmed absolutely nothing and the above two lines are all
i got because you put quoted material after your sig delimiter (only
your sig should appear after your sig delimiter)...

anyways...
http://www.clamav.net/abstract.html#pagestart

"detection of over 31000 viruses, worms and trojans".... 31,000 is
considerably less than half of all known viruses (which is in the range
of 100,000)...
 
Thanx Kurt !

I won't recommend it anymore.

McAfee is at 117,244

--
Dave




| David H. Lipman wrote:
|
| > Can you please point me to that data Kurt...
| >
|
| can you please format your posts properly so that context can be
| preserved? i trimmed absolutely nothing and the above two lines are all
| i got because you put quoted material after your sig delimiter (only
| your sig should appear after your sig delimiter)...
|
| anyways...
| http://www.clamav.net/abstract.html#pagestart
|
| "detection of over 31000 viruses, worms and trojans".... 31,000 is
| considerably less than half of all known viruses (which is in the range
| of 100,000)...
|
| --
| "we are the revenants
| and we will rise up from the dead
| we become the living
| we've come back to reclaim our stolen breath"
|
 
kurt said:
can you please format your posts properly so that context can be
preserved? i trimmed absolutely nothing and the above two lines are all
i got because you put quoted material after your sig delimiter (only
your sig should appear after your sig delimiter)...

anyways...
http://www.clamav.net/abstract.html#pagestart

"detection of over 31000 viruses, worms and trojans".... 31,000 is
considerably less than half of all known viruses (which is in the range
of 100,000)...
Click to expand...


From what I see, the "format" problem is an interpretation problem of
Mozilla Thunderbird. That's what your using - Right ?

I just tried it in this reply.

Dave
 
No, it isn't you are using Mozilla but it does interpret it the same way. I'll see if
removing "--" in the sig helps...

Dave




| kurt wismer wrote:
| > David H. Lipman wrote:
| >
| >> Can you please point me to that data Kurt...
| >>
| >
| > can you please format your posts properly so that context can be
| > preserved? i trimmed absolutely nothing and the above two lines are all
| > i got because you put quoted material after your sig delimiter (only
| > your sig should appear after your sig delimiter)...
| >
| > anyways...
| > http://www.clamav.net/abstract.html#pagestart
| >
| > "detection of over 31000 viruses, worms and trojans".... 31,000 is
| > considerably less than half of all known viruses (which is in the range
| > of 100,000)...
| >
|
|
| From what I see, the "format" problem is an interpretation problem of
| Mozilla Thunderbird. That's what your using - Right ?
|
| I just tried it in this reply.
|
| Dave
 
David said:
No, it isn't you are using Mozilla but it does interpret it the same way. I'll see if
removing "--" in the sig helps...

Dave
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Yep, it sure does !

Mozilla based News Client's interprets "--"

Interesting but I'm not switching from OE to Thunderbird -- yet.

I will no longer have a Signature that includes "--"

Dave
 
David said:
From what I see, the "format" problem is an interpretation problem
of Mozilla Thunderbird. That's what your using - Right ?
Click to expand...

Actually, practically all newsreaders (except OE) will automatically
trim off any content below the sig delimiter "-- ", getting it right.
You place your sig above the replied content.

--
-bts
-This space intentionally left blank.

I just tried it in this reply.
Click to expand...

I'm going to move my sig above this last line or yours. Open this post
in Thunderbird, or any other than OE, and try to reply to it. Notice
how this text is sort of .. gray.

OE gets it wrong unless you use QuoteFix and specify to place your sig
at the bottom ... <g>
 
David said:
I will no longer have a Signature that includes "--"
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A proper sig delimiter is not "--" but "-- ". Two dashes followed by a
space and a newline. Swipe your mouse over yours, then over mine.
Note the space.
 
After a few tests I see the OE auto-generates the "--" and not me and not "-- "

Dave




| David H. Lipman wrote:
|
| > I will no longer have a Signature that includes "--"
|
| A proper sig delimiter is not "--" but "-- ". Two dashes followed by a
| space and a newline. Swipe your mouse over yours, then over mine.
| Note the space.
|
| --
| -bts
| -This space intentionally left blank.
 
David said:
kurt said:
can you please format your posts properly so that context can be
preserved? i trimmed absolutely nothing and the above two lines are all
i got because you put quoted material after your sig delimiter (only
your sig should appear after your sig delimiter)...
Click to expand...
[snip]

From what I see, the "format" problem is an interpretation problem of
Mozilla Thunderbird. That's what your using - Right ?
Click to expand...

i'm using the mozilla suite, so it's mozilla mail rather than
thunderbird.... and the format problem is the interpretation by
standards compliant readers that sig delimiters mark the end of the
message and the beginning of the sig... and since people don't
generally reply to sigs, everything after the delimiter can be omitted
from the quotation..
I just tried it in this reply.

Dave
Click to expand...

and it looks perfect this time round...
 
| David H. Lipman wrote:
|
|| From what I see, the "format" problem is an interpretation problem
|| of Mozilla Thunderbird. That's what your using - Right ?
|
| Actually, practically all newsreaders (except OE) will automatically
| trim off any content below the sig delimiter "-- ", getting it right.
| You place your sig above the replied content.
|
|
|| I just tried it in this reply.
|
| I'm going to move my sig above this last line or yours. Open this post
| in Thunderbird, or any other than OE, and try to reply to it. Notice
| how this text is sort of .. gray.
|
| OE gets it wrong unless you use QuoteFix and specify to place your sig
| at the bottom ... <g>


Well alright then... I have just capitulated.

Call me a Catfish becuase I have just become a bottom feeder ! ;-)
 
| David H. Lipman wrote:
|| kurt wismer wrote:
||| David H. Lipman wrote:
|||
|||| Can you please point me to that data Kurt...
|||
||| can you please format your posts properly so that context can be
||| preserved? i trimmed absolutely nothing and the above two lines are all
||| i got because you put quoted material after your sig delimiter (only
||| your sig should appear after your sig delimiter)...
| [snip]
||
|| From what I see, the "format" problem is an interpretation problem of
|| Mozilla Thunderbird. That's what your using - Right ?
|
| i'm using the mozilla suite, so it's mozilla mail rather than
| thunderbird.... and the format problem is the interpretation by
| standards compliant readers that sig delimiters mark the end of the
| message and the beginning of the sig... and since people don't
| generally reply to sigs, everything after the delimiter can be omitted
| from the quotation..
|
|| I just tried it in this reply.
||
|| Dave
|
| and it looks perfect this time round...

I will state this. * * I will change for YOU Kurt ! * *

I am not ready to switch News Clients so I'm sticking with OE however, I am now going to use
Qutoe-Fix and reply at the bottom. While I have been asked *many* times to Bottom post and
said no. I will change my habits for those people, who are now increasing in numbers, who
use Mozilla based News Clients.

However, I am not changing my opinion on yEnc encoded attachments ;-)
 
David said:
| David H. Lipman wrote:
|| kurt wismer wrote:
||| David H. Lipman wrote:
|||
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I will state this. * * I will change for YOU Kurt ! * *

I am not ready to switch News Clients so I'm sticking with OE however, I am now going to use
Qutoe-Fix and reply at the bottom. While I have been asked *many* times to Bottom post and
said no. I will change my habits for those people, who are now increasing in numbers, who
use Mozilla based News Clients.
Click to expand...

One more (well, two) favor, Dave... could you change your word wrap to
around 72 to 76 characters, and switch to the standard quoting
character of ">" instead of the vertical bar? We would appreciate
that. Thanks.
However, I am not changing my opinion on yEnc encoded attachments ;-)
Click to expand...

That's fine by me. <g>
 
|
| One more (well, two) favor, Dave... could you change your word wrap to
| around 72 to 76 characters, and switch to the standard quoting
| character of ">" instead of the vertical bar? We would appreciate
| that. Thanks.
|
|| However, I am not changing my opinion on yEnc encoded attachments ;-)
|
| That's fine by me. <g>

Now that going to f**k'n far :-)


Hey I'm a mix of anarchist and non-conformist.
 
kurt wismer - 25.02.2005 00:04 :
David H. Lipman wrote:
[...]

can you please format your posts properly so that context can be
preserved? i trimmed absolutely nothing and the above two lines are all
i got because you put quoted material after your sig delimiter (only
your sig should appear after your sig delimiter)...
Click to expand...

this is a very "special" usenet-/posting-behavior of David. I posted
with him politely about that a few weeks ago. He defended his behavior
and was not willing to accept any argument against his behavior :-(

BTW: David often could shorten the quoting part(s) because of unnessary
wasting bandwidth and practize bottom posting instead of top posting to
make threads/postings more readable, IMHO. Nevertheless otherwise David
seems to be a pleasent "regular" for this newsgroup more than often
helping people having problems.

(Please excuse my bad English. It's my 4th foreign language only).

Nice weekend,
 
Peter said:
kurt wismer - 25.02.2005 00:04 :

David H. Lipman wrote:

[...]


can you please format your posts properly so that context can be
preserved? i trimmed absolutely nothing and the above two lines are all
i got because you put quoted material after your sig delimiter (only
your sig should appear after your sig delimiter)...
Click to expand...


this is a very "special" usenet-/posting-behavior of David. I posted
with him politely about that a few weeks ago. He defended his behavior
and was not willing to accept any argument against his behavior :-(
Click to expand...

he just used flowed format of e-mail body

Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed



Regards
 
| kurt wismer - 25.02.2005 00:04 :
|
|| David H. Lipman wrote:
|
| [...]
|
|| can you please format your posts properly so that context can be
|| preserved? i trimmed absolutely nothing and the above two lines are all
|| i got because you put quoted material after your sig delimiter (only
|| your sig should appear after your sig delimiter)...
|
| this is a very "special" usenet-/posting-behavior of David. I posted
| with him politely about that a few weeks ago. He defended his behavior
| and was not willing to accept any argument against his behavior :-(
|
| BTW: David often could shorten the quoting part(s) because of unnessary
| wasting bandwidth and practize bottom posting instead of top posting to
| make threads/postings more readable, IMHO. Nevertheless otherwise David
| seems to be a pleasent "regular" for this newsgroup more than often
| helping people having problems.
|
| (Please excuse my bad English. It's my 4th foreign language only).
|
| Nice weekend,
|
| --
| by(e) PS
|
| spam will be killed

I ignored you because you are so *bloody annoying* !

I changed *only* because of the way Mozilla products interpret posts for reply messages.

I am willing to change for someone like Kurt who actullay posts substance in the AV News
Groups.
 
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