From: "Noah Keck" <[email protected]>

I happen to be into collecting and restoring older machines and recently I
came across an old Pentium 166 machine running Windows 95.
I don't have any old versions of antivirus software and am curious to know
what the best antivirus for Windows 95 was or is.
Thanks!
-Noah


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From: FredW <[email protected]d>

On Sun, 25 Feb 2018 11:43:59 -0500, "Noah Keck" <[email protected]>
wrote:

I happen to be into collecting and restoring older machines and recently I >came across an old Pentium 166 machine running Windows 95.
I don't have any old versions of antivirus software and am curious to know >what the best antivirus for Windows 95 was or is.

As always there never was or is or will be any BEST antivirus for any
Windows.
Stop asking this same stupid question over and over and over again,
the answer will always be the same and has been for over 20 years.

Try to find Norton AntiVirus 1998 or something like that.
In the old days Norton AntiVirus was one of the better products.
Also McAfee had not yet found the way to total self-destruction.

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From: Shadow <[email protected]>

On Sun, 25 Feb 2018 11:43:59 -0500, "Noah Keck" <[email protected]>
wrote:

I happen to be into collecting and restoring older machines and recently I >came across an old Pentium 166 machine running Windows 95.
I don't have any old versions of antivirus software and am curious to know >what the best antivirus for Windows 95 was or is.
Thanks!
-Noah

If you want to scan it, use a Live-CD. If it won't boot the
CD, you can probably boot the CD from a floppy disk.
If you want one for historical reasons, f-prot and tbav were
probably the "prettiest" ones..... both used a colored DOS-like
interface.
;)
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Shadow <[email protected]> wrote:

On Sun, 25 Feb 2018 11:43:59 -0500, "Noah Keck" <[email protected]>
wrote:

I happen to be into collecting and restoring older machines and recently I >came across an old Pentium 166 machine running Windows 95.
I don't have any old versions of antivirus software and am curious to know >what the best antivirus for Windows 95 was or is.
Thanks!
-Noah

If you want to scan it, use a Live-CD. If it won't boot the
CD, you can probably boot the CD from a floppy disk.
If you want one for historical reasons, f-prot and tbav were
probably the "prettiest" ones..... both used a colored DOS-like
interface.
;)

Back in those days, Norton (2002 and older), McAfee, etc.
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From: Bill <####[email protected]>

"Noah Keck" <[email protected]> Wrote in message:

I happen to be into collecting and restoring older machines and recently I came across an old Pentium 166 machine running Windows 95.
I don't have any old versions of antivirus software and am curious to know what the best antivirus for Windows 95 was or is.
Thanks!
-Noah

Back in the day it was Dr. Solomon's Anti-Virus Toolkit.
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From: CRNG <[email protected]>

On Tue, 27 Mar 2018 05:13:38 -0500 (CDT), Bill <####[email protected]>
wrote in <p9d5gj$oi4$[email protected]>

"Noah Keck" <[email protected]> Wrote in message:

I happen to be into collecting and restoring older machines and recently I >> came across an old Pentium 166 machine running Windows 95.
I don't have any old versions of antivirus software and am curious to know >> what the best antivirus for Windows 95 was or is.
Thanks!
-Noah

Back in the day it was Dr. Solomon's Anti-Virus Toolkit.

I think Norton may have had an AV that worked well at that time,
although I didn't use it.
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From: Wilf <[email protected]oup>

On 27/03/2018 1:10pm, CRNG wrote:

On Tue, 27 Mar 2018 05:13:38 -0500 (CDT), Bill <####[email protected]>
wrote in <p9d5gj$oi4$[email protected]>

"Noah Keck" <[email protected]> Wrote in message:

I happen to be into collecting and restoring older machines and recently I >>> came across an old Pentium 166 machine running Windows 95.
I don't have any old versions of antivirus software and am curious to know >>> what the best antivirus for Windows 95 was or is.
Thanks!
-Noah

Back in the day it was Dr. Solomon's Anti-Virus Toolkit.

I think Norton may have had an AV that worked well at that time,
although I didn't use it.

Dr. Solomon's was certainly the go to anti-virus solution at the time
(not necessarily the only solution - McAfee was around too, I think).

Wilf
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