Installing AV

[Mike]

Hi all

I need to update the AV on my mums machine (windows 98SE) and was going to load Avast and Adware

As she only has a 56k connection is it ok for me to download it Broad Band and then burn to disc and then copy to her hard drive. Do not want to sit there for hours while it downloads as I have limited time.

Any comments..thanks

Mike

[Gareth]

As long as you download the executable for the installation and burn that to disc, then you'll be fine. You'll still need to go online and get the latest definitions/signatures, but those will be relatively small.

[Paul K]

Some av's allow you to download the defs for installation too. Might want to look around the website of the tool you are going to install to see if you can download the lates definitions at the same time.

[Gareth]

I don't use either of those AV packages, but you can often download signatures as well, so thinking about it again, you could even download the latest version of the sigs and burn them to the CD at the same time, and then just copy them over when you've installed the software on your Mum's PC. I know you can do this with McAfee.
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Heh, too slow at typing... see what Paul said

[Paul K]

Latest Avast Free version: http://files.avast.com/iavs4pro/setupeng.exe
Avast updates: http://www.avast.com/eng/updates.html
Oh and I hope you aren't going to install adware but rather a tool like adaware to deal with them
Adaware: http://www.lavasoftusa.com/support/download/#free
Latest Adaware banned sites list: http://download.lavasoft.de.edgesuit...blic/sites.zip
Latest Adaware defs: http://download.lavasoft.de.edgesuit...ublic/defs.zip

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[nffc]

Avast is good, the updates are usually twice a day and the files are pretty small.