Can anyone recommend a preferably free antivirus software for a 98 O/S PC with 64MB of RAM?

The machine is only really used as a print server. It has Internet to keep the time correct but no email. It runs for months unattended but I decided maybe it should have antivirus protection.

Antivir causes the PC to crash about once a day
AVG free won't run properly (it needs 128MB of RAM)

studc:

Have a look here:
http://www.f-prot.com/products/home_use/dos/

Free for personal home use and low on memory requirement.

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Does it really need AV? Presumably you could use just another machine on the network to synchronise time to avoid having any internet access - and I can't even see that being an important issue for a print server.

Presumably it has no firewall or anti-spyware either?

wolluf

Your right I guess, it doesn't really matter. Time synchronisation is really just me liking the system clock to be right. But that PC for some reason can lose several minutes a day. So if I don't turn the screen on for a couple of weeks it can be 2 hours out or more without Internet access.

True, no firewall or anti-spyware either. It is behind a router firewall though. I scan it via the LAN from time to time. Nothing has ever been found.

How can I synchronise it's time using another PC on the LAN?

Am I right in thinking it is sufficient to remove the default gateway to prevent Internet access?

greyted

I'll give your suggestion a go - thanks for that.

How can I synchronise it's time using another PC on the LAN?

From a DOS prompt or batch file do;

net time \\computername /set /yes

HTH Hugh,

Thanks for that HughLerwill - I have put that in a batch file scheduled to run daily. I have manually configured an IP address for the PC with no default gateway and added rules to my router firewall to block all traffic (TCP & UDP) to or from that IP address going in or out of the WAN port.

Should do the trick I hope.