URGENT--Yahoo! Online Protection Question 1

[tgharris]

My best friend has a Windows ME box on AT&T/Yahoo! DSL with Yahoo! Online Protection. The last couple times I was over there I made sure her AV and Anti-Spy were up to date. I got a warning message that seemed to say YOP would not longer be available for ME systems after July.

I noticed no updates were available for her system a couple days ago. Is it true? Has Yahoo! abandoned Win Me users? I did configure them for automaic updates. How could I find the date they were last updated?

I don't want to suggest anything drastic, not if it is not necessary. Especially as she seems to be on the verge of being frightened off compters altogether. Please help.



Tony Harris

 

[2ffat]

It wouldn't surprise me since not even Microsoft supports ME anymore.


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[tgharris]

I could understand not providing updates to the scanning engine, but what does the nature of the OS have to do with definitions?

That's what I want to know: yes or no: Are there no more DEFINITIONS to be had. If not, her safest course is to disable the Yahoo! protection and install AVG. But I hate to do that unless ABSOLUTELY necessary.

Tony H.

Tony Harris

 

[Diancecht]

The viruses may attack some OSs and not others.

Cheers,
Dian

 

[electronicsfreak]

What antivirus came with yahoo online protection? If its norton or mcafee I highly reccomend uninstalling them and installing avg. Also another suggestion , if you ever get a chance, upgrade or get another machine with xp on it.

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[Sleepsalot]

Hi Tony,
electronicsfreak is right AVG or even Avast is better than the yahoo protection. And MEis getting beyond it's life cycle. It never worked well for most people I know If you want her to still be able to use the yahoo protection the only real choice is to upgrade the OS. I know this doesn't sound fair. But with MS not offering any support for ME it makes sense that third party software isn't giving support any more.
Hey EF star

Wayne

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[electronicsfreak]

lol Thanks again Wayne. Appreciate it.

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[tgharris]

Thank you both. I found her antivirus (comes from Computer Associates) is still updating. It updated just that week. But her antispyware is not. I tried to download and install Ad-Aware but they had just gone to their 2007 version and have dropped the old SE version that worked on Windows ME.

I refuse to abandon my friend to this conspiracy by Microsoft, aided and abetted by the major software companies, to bankrupt her in a never-ending "treadmill of upgrades."

Her system is operaing nominally, at present. Since she uses older hardware XP may not even be an option. I cannot understand why the older anti-malware versions cannot be provided with updated signatures to scan for.

Could either of you recommend a anti-spyware you would trust that still works (or an older version is still available) for Windows Me?

Thanks,

Tony Harris

 

[electronicsfreak]

ad-aware se still works or was just the other day when I used it. Also spybot search and destroy. Another thing you can do that I do, is run another computer on a network with it that has like say 2000 or xp on it and scan their computer from mine.

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