Not Enough Storage Error

Asyn · 2015-10-05T15:25:33.000Z

nightshade post:1:

I am using version 4.8.1637, is this too old? also am I right in saying that Avast has finally dropped support for 98?

In short, yes and yes.

nightshade · 2015-10-05T15:33:32.000Z

When did it drop support for 98? as it was fine just a couple of days ago.

Pondus · 2015-10-05T15:36:23.000Z

If you need AV for museums OS W98

ClamWin http://www.clamwin.com

For realtime protection you need to add Clam Sentinel http://clamsentinel.sourceforge.net

Asyn · 2015-10-05T15:38:43.000Z

nightshade post:3:

When did it drop support for 98? as it was fine just a couple of days ago.

To be honest, that 98 was supported a few days ago is new to me.

bob3160 · 2015-10-05T15:47:50.000Z

Windows 98 as a game machine might be OK provided it doesn’t go on the internet.
There are too many germs out there to expose this dinosaur.

nightshade · 2015-10-05T15:54:01.000Z

Pondus post:4:

If you need AV for museums OS W98

ClamWin http://www.clamwin.com

For realtime protection you need to add Clam Sentinel http://clamsentinel.sourceforge.net

Will try both

Asyn · 2015-10-05T16:12:53.000Z

Also see: https://blog.avast.com/2015/05/06/support-for-older-avast-windows-consumer-version-will-end/

Pondus · 2015-10-05T16:35:58.000Z

nightshade post:7:

Pondus post:4:

If you need AV for museums OS W98

ClamWin http://www.clamwin.com

For realtime protection you need to add Clam Sentinel http://clamsentinel.sourceforge.net

Will try both

They also have a forum in case you have any questions http://forums.clamwin.com

nightshade · 2015-10-05T23:00:27.000Z

Asyn post:8:

Also see: https://blog.avast.com/2015/05/06/support-for-older-avast-windows-consumer-version-will-end/

Says on that blog link that it would continue with the definition updates for older versions , but I take it that 98 is excluded.

Also what does clam sentinel actually bring to clamwin?

DavidR · 2015-10-05T23:06:08.000Z

Well the full virus definitions update is still available for avast 4.8.0 https://www.avast.com/download-update, so I would have thought if that is their the regular VPS auto updates would still be available.

system · 2015-10-05T23:48:26.000Z

[i]"not having enough storage"[/i]

A simple question would be ¿ Do you have enough free space in that HDD ? being a PC with Win 98 how big is your HDD ?

nightshade · 2015-10-05T23:56:13.000Z

iroc9555 post:12:

[i]"not having enough storage"[/i]

A simple question would be ¿ Do you have enough free space in that HDD ? being a PC with Win 98 how big is your HDD ?

Yes, I have 6.7 GB free space. the HDD is 80gig

nightshade · 2015-10-05T23:59:43.000Z

DavidR post:11:

Well the full virus definitions update is still available for avast 4.8.0 https://www.avast.com/download-update, so I would have thought if that is their the regular VPS auto updates would still be available.

It certainly updated just a few days ago, but it was just yesterday that I received that message about not enough storage, then eventually it would say it was up-to-date but when I checked the about it stated that it wasn’t.

I say it was a false reading saying it was up-to-date on the about section as it would have taken much longer than only a few seconds to bring up the up-to-date box, in other words it’s saying up-to-date when it hasn’t actually downloaded anything.

davexnet · 2015-10-06T00:00:54.000Z

I have XP on a small partition (18GB), and I’ve seen this message also.
I only install the shields, none of the bloatware extras.

As long as I have at least 2GB free, it installs OK.

nightshade · 2015-10-06T19:23:55.000Z

Finally getting used to using both ClamWin and Clam Sentinel.

I have cut the full scan file extensions down to five .DLL, .EXE, .MSR, .SCR and .SYS, as it was taking quite a bit of time for the scanning.

Also not to scan a file over 5MB.

Does that sound okay?

Pondus · 2015-10-06T19:45:01.000Z

Also what does clam sentinel actually bring to clamwin?

As said, Realtime protection, but i guess you found out ;) lots of info on there website(s)

And they have a forum http://forums.clamwin.com

nightshade · 2015-10-06T20:30:15.000Z

Pondus post:17:

Also what does clam sentinel actually bring to clamwin?
As said, Realtime protection,

When I think of real time protection I think of it checking newly opening web pages and links, it doesn’t appear to have this. :-\

nightshade · 2015-10-11T22:57:02.000Z

When I was asking if 98 was still supported what I really meant is Avast 4.8 still allowing successful downloads for virus updates? After receiving that storage error message then DavidR saying that it could well be ok for virus updates it has left me kinda confused.

nightshade · 2015-10-12T09:36:42.000Z

I can confirm that the Avast 4.8 1368 will not download the virus definitions without the storage message regardless whether there is plenty of storage or not, so it would seem that Windows 98 is no longer for Avast free.

system · 2015-10-12T11:51:09.000Z

nightshade post:20:

I can confirm that the Avast 4.8 1368 will not download the virus definitions without the storage message regardless whether there is plenty of storage or not, so it would seem that Windows 98 is no longer for Avast free.

I was using version 7 up until last week when I saw that my virus and engine definitions had not been updated for 2 weeks prior to that! My mum using the computer more than me these days and she hadn’t noticed. So, I went to the Avast website and downloaded the VPS file for that version, but all it did was change the program version to the latest one (version 10) after the computer was restarted, so it looks like versions 9 and 10 are the only ones that will be updated from now on, which is fair enough. I knew that the program version I was using was outdated by almost three years, so I’m not overly surprised!

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