Boot Scan for Win98se

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@igor post:19

Well, you are right in that the boot-time scanner is no prevention.
It might be handy, however, to remove the infection if it already got to your computer (no protection is 100%, and there’s a lot of new malware appearing every day, so it sometimes may happen). Since it is started before (most of) the malware has chance to activate, it’s more likely to be able to remove it easily.

As I said, however, making a boot-time scanner for Windows 98 would require “back-porting” our scanner to the DOS environment, which is really hardly worth the effort.

I totally understand your point Igor. Everything I need an operating system to do, 98SE is doing. I have great hardware installed with drivers not necessarily compatible with upgrading my OS. And, paying for the Operating system would consume the money I want to send AVast. Monetarily, I’d be out of money and, have to rely on Microsoft’s attempt to provide virus protection. Plus, re-purchase some programs/hardware. Wish it weren’t as you say. However…,
Please allow my apology for “beating up this topic” if I’m doing it in the wrong part of the forum. I probably don’t know enough to fix other 98SE users problems. But, I will tend to my profile and let others know what works for me.

[igor0]

Sure. I wasn’t saying everybody with Win98 should upgrade now
Just that the number of Win9x installations is decreasing and it’s not the way to go for the future.