For how long will Avast!4 be supported?

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
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Avast!5 runs only under Microsoft Windows 2000, XP, Vista, 7 (32/64 bit). Have you decided for how long Avast!4 will be supported?

This is of interest to those of us running older operating systems. (I claim the oldest; I am running under Windows 95.)

Many thanks,
Martin

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out this year have been said

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Offtopic: Wow, that’s old indeed. Does that system connect to the internet through a LAN connection ? What is it used for ?

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Pondus,

I wonder if this has ever been confirmed by one of the Avast! boys ???

Greetz, Red.

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They did not make any announcement to phase out the server version of avast 4, why would they phase out the desktop version ? I believe they will end support when avast 5 will be “feature complete” (ie, when all the features they planned for the 5th version are implemented) - pure speculation ofc

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Not 100% sure but i think it was vlk…maybe in the beta forum ?

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My personal opinion:
From January to July, the version 5 was updated in ~50% of the avast installations.
It’s possible to get the other 50% from now to the end of the year, although the curve for this should be slight.
But, they won’t be able to finish the support. I think it will go for 2011.

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Was Methuselah still alive and used Windows 95 ???

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It has always had a LAN card but, at the moment, I connect through a modem.

What is it used for ?

Well, at the moment, I am typing this. The machine is a Pentium II, and is used to connect to the Internet and for general Web browsing. I maintain my PHP website on it (although the actual web server is elsewhere).

I resent an OS that steals all my CPU cycles for fancy whiz bangs that I do not want and would never use. Unfortunately, even free software that is compatible is becoming increasingly difficult to find, so I guess I will soon have to upgrade to a new(ish) computer running XP. (Anything more recent than XP would be suicide; visit http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.html.)

Regards,
Martin

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This is also of interest to me. I am running a “tweaked” version of Windows ME which is very stable. Also, I use other software which is not compatible with later versions of Windows. However, I am beginning to think that I will have to upgrade sooner or later.

In the meantime I would be very sorry to lose the protection of Avast!

regards,
dafydd