Windows ME free anti virus

Susan Egglaine

AVG does not support ME anymore & avast will not down load. Does anyone know of a free version for my old desk top? THANKS!

ResQue

Try this one:

http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials/

Susan Egglaine

Howdy!
Me does not work with that one either :huh:
Thanks for the trying

Humphrey Chimpden Earwicker

don't know if you care for any advice from me, but that operating system was superseded by XP many years ago, and support for it (and that generally means any new software for it too) stopped in 2006.

i don't know if you are interested in spending a hundred bucks or so to upgrade the operating system, but your computer might not be able to handle it anyway.

here's some solace, though: if you are worried about viruses, i would wager that the vast majority of any NEW viruses wouldn't be written to exploit Windows ME anyway. It's like Macintosh stuff. They don't get many viruses (if any), because so many people are running windows-based PCs that no one really bothers to go after the Macs. The hackers have a much bigger target with Windows 7. likewise, if your older Operating system has been protected until now, I can't imagine that anyone in Russia is writing viruses to attack a ten-year old OS.

you are probably safe.

it's not your primary computer is it? it must be awfully slow these days

good luck

Susan Egglaine

I welcome and appreciate any advice from you! I use my lap top (Vista) mostly . I use the old desk top for the printer. I do have a very large email that I send out weekly from the lap top & just worry that it might somehow get infected. Can email viruses form the old computer be transferred to the new one? The new computer has protection but receives the same emails as the old one.

Humphrey Chimpden Earwicker

i would imagine that any OLD virus from the old computer would be spotted by any anti-virus software in the NEW machine.

do you surf the web or download any new software to the OLD machine? most viruses come from freeware, unsafe websites, etc.

conceivably you could have an infection on the old machine from opening an email on it someone might send that has a NEW virus. but that new virus would need to be written to exploit ME.

i would say if you old machine is for nothing other than sending emails to a large list of people, you should run whatever anti-virus scan on it you can. then use it ONLY for sending email. not for opening/reading new email, downloading, or web surfing. you probably find it too slow for that stuff anyway.

if you believe it to be 'clean', and then don't compromise it, you should be ok in theory, no?

Humphrey Chimpden Earwicker

after you are relatively sure it is clean, send an email from the old machine to your new one, and see if your NEW machine's NEW antivirus detects anything.

if it is clean, you should feel comfortable sending email from it

Susan Egglaine

Thanks! I was at an Eggfest over 3 years ago & talking to someone I had just met but knew through the forum. We were talking about people we would like to meet, I said you

Humphrey Chimpden Earwicker

aw shucks....


hahaha
thanks