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  • Best antivirus for Windows 95?

    From Noah Keck@1:396/4 to All on Sun Feb 25 00:43:59 2018
    From: "Noah Keck" <noahkeck72@gmail.com>

    I happen to be into collecting and restoring older machines and recently I
    came across an old Pentium 166 machine running Windows 95.
    I don't have any old versions of antivirus software and am curious to know
    what the best antivirus for Windows 95 was or is.
    Thanks!
    -Noah


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  • From FredW@1:396/4 to All on Sun Feb 25 17:28:48 2018
    From: FredW <fredw@ninmule.invalid>

    On Sun, 25 Feb 2018 11:43:59 -0500, "Noah Keck" <noahkeck72@gmail.com>
    wrote:

    I happen to be into collecting and restoring older machines and recently I >came across an old Pentium 166 machine running Windows 95.
    I don't have any old versions of antivirus software and am curious to know >what the best antivirus for Windows 95 was or is.


    As always there never was or is or will be any BEST antivirus for any
    Windows.
    Stop asking this same stupid question over and over and over again,
    the answer will always be the same and has been for over 20 years.

    Try to find Norton AntiVirus 1998 or something like that.
    In the old days Norton AntiVirus was one of the better products.
    Also McAfee had not yet found the way to total self-destruction.

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    Fred W. (nld)
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  • From Shadow@1:396/4 to All on Sun Feb 25 16:08:00 2018
    From: Shadow <Sh@dow.br>

    On Sun, 25 Feb 2018 11:43:59 -0500, "Noah Keck" <noahkeck72@gmail.com>
    wrote:

    I happen to be into collecting and restoring older machines and recently I >came across an old Pentium 166 machine running Windows 95.
    I don't have any old versions of antivirus software and am curious to know >what the best antivirus for Windows 95 was or is.
    Thanks!
    -Noah


    If you want to scan it, use a Live-CD. If it won't boot the
    CD, you can probably boot the CD from a floppy disk.
    If you want one for historical reasons, f-prot and tbav were
    probably the "prettiest" ones..... both used a colored DOS-like
    interface.
    ;)
    []'s
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  • From Bill@1:396/4 to All on Mon Mar 26 18:13:38 2018
    From: Bill <####off@spammer.com>

    "Noah Keck" <noahkeck72@gmail.com> Wrote in message:
    I happen to be into collecting and restoring older machines and recently I came across an old Pentium 166 machine running Windows 95.
    I don't have any old versions of antivirus software and am curious to know what the best antivirus for Windows 95 was or is.
    Thanks!
    -Noah




    Back in the day it was Dr. Solomon's Anti-Virus Toolkit.
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  • From CRNG@1:396/4 to All on Mon Mar 26 20:10:41 2018
    From: CRNG <noemail@atthisdomain.gov>

    On Tue, 27 Mar 2018 05:13:38 -0500 (CDT), Bill <####off@spammer.com>
    wrote in <p9d5gj$oi4$1@dont-email.me>

    "Noah Keck" <noahkeck72@gmail.com> Wrote in message:
    I happen to be into collecting and restoring older machines and recently I >> came across an old Pentium 166 machine running Windows 95.
    I don't have any old versions of antivirus software and am curious to know >> what the best antivirus for Windows 95 was or is.
    Thanks!
    -Noah




    Back in the day it was Dr. Solomon's Anti-Virus Toolkit.

    I think Norton may have had an AV that worked well at that time,
    although I didn't use it.
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  • From Wilf@1:396/4 to All on Tue Mar 27 08:54:03 2018
    From: Wilf <wilf@replyto.newsgroup>

    On 27/03/2018 1:10pm, CRNG wrote:

    On Tue, 27 Mar 2018 05:13:38 -0500 (CDT), Bill <####off@spammer.com>
    wrote in <p9d5gj$oi4$1@dont-email.me>

    "Noah Keck" <noahkeck72@gmail.com> Wrote in message:
    I happen to be into collecting and restoring older machines and recently I >>> came across an old Pentium 166 machine running Windows 95.
    I don't have any old versions of antivirus software and am curious to know >>> what the best antivirus for Windows 95 was or is.
    Thanks!
    -Noah




    Back in the day it was Dr. Solomon's Anti-Virus Toolkit.

    I think Norton may have had an AV that worked well at that time,
    although I didn't use it.


    Dr. Solomon's was certainly the go to anti-virus solution at the time
    (not necessarily the only solution - McAfee was around too, I think).

    Wilf
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