My wife's computer is under attack by some virus and she doesn't have an anti-viral program. I went to download a free one from RoadRunner but it couldn't install it on a Windows 95 OS. Does anybody know an anti-viral program that will install and run on a Windows 95 OS? Thanks.
Good opportunity to format the hard drive and install XP. Windows 95 is bad. Check www.symantec.com, hopefully they will have something.
Yo, upgrade it. Windows 95 is obsolete. None of the virus softwares support Win 95. Even if you put Norton Antivirus 2001, you won't get any updates at all that will be compatible w/ the Win 95 OS.
I don't know if this will work for Windows 95...it's a link to an online virus scanner from Symantec.... http://security.symantec.com/sscv6/default.asp?productid=symhome&langid=ie&venid=sym Just click on that link...it should bring up a page with a Go button. Clicking on the Go button will pop up a new window that will allow you to do a security check or virus scan. Make sure you do this in Internet Exploder...not Netscape/Mozilla. It errored out on my Mozilla browser.
Confirmed. I just spend 3 minutes @ $4.95 per minute with Symantec support. Should have checked here first. Let that be a lesson for us all!
She checks out okay. No virus but the infected emails keep coming. Does the anti-viral software stop the emails? or just slow them down? or what exactly?
I think the emails can be deleted, but once the attachment of the email is opened, you've just opened Pandora's Box. Right now at where I work, the whole company is dealing w/ the W32.Novarg.A@mm virus (mass-mailing worm that arrives as an attachment with the file extension .bat, .cmd, .exe, .pif, .scr, or .zip. When a computer is infected, the worm will set up a backdoor into the system by opening TCP ports 3127 thru 3198. This can potentially allow an attacker to connect to the computer and use it as a proxy to gain access to its network resources. In addition, the backdoor has the ability to download and execute arbitrary files - just the technical part of it).
