Free Anti-Virus and Firewall Security Freeware Supported on Windows 98 and Windows Me

Microsoft has ended customer incident support or technical support and no longer issues security updates or patches for Windows 98 and Windows ME (Millennium Edition) operating system as part of its product lifecycle policy, as both OSes have reached the point of architectural obsolescene as they’re developed before the era of sophisticated internet viruses. That would means that the OS users will further expose to new security threats and risks.

However, if you decided to continue using Windows 98 or Windows ME, Washington Post has tested a few freeware and trialware of various security tools including anti-virus software and firewall that install, runs and uninstall properly on Windows 98 and Windows ME without causing Blue Screen of Death (BSOD). But before that, you will need to download, install and update Internet Explorer to Internet Explorer 6 Service Pack 1 which is more secured from Microsoft.

Here is the list of security tools that supports Windows 98 and Windows ME:

Anti Virus Software

Freeware: Antivir Personal Edition Classic, Avast 4 Home Edition, Grisoft’s AVG Personal Edition, Bitdefender 8, Free Edition, ClamWin Free.

Trial Software: EZTrust Anti-Virus (one year free usage), F-Secure Antivirus 2006 (six-month free trial), Kaspersky Anti-Virus 6.0 (30-day trial), Panda Platinum 2006 Internet Security (90-day trial), McAfee Virus Scan (90-day free trial), Trend Micro PC-cillin Internet Security 2006 (90-day trial), F-Prot Antivirus (30-day trial).

Firewall Protection Software

Freeware: Jetico Personal Firewall, Tiny Personal Firewall, ZoneAlarm prior to version 5.5 (support may discontinued anytime).

Browsers

Other than upgrading to IE6, alternative browsers such as Firefox and Opera works perfectly well in Windows 98 and Windows ME and provides more secure surfing experience.

Anti-Spyware Utility

Free: AdAware Personal, Spybot Search and Destroy, Spyware Guard, HijackThis, Spywareblaster, Winpatrol

Trial: eTrust PestPatrol (30-day trial), McAfee Anti-Spyware (30-day trial), Sunbelt Software’s Counterspy (15-day trial)


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9 Responses to “Free Anti-Virus and Firewall Security Freeware Supported on Windows 98 and Windows Me”

  1. manoj
    August 29th, 2009 23:30
    9

    hai

  2. W. Jacob
    July 22nd, 2009 17:57
    8

    10 Jahre Erfahrung beim Schutz vor Malware in einer dynamischen Anwendung zusammengefasst. Ad-Aware

  3. James
    July 21st, 2009 11:26
    7

    Only AVG version 7.5 supports Windows 98, NOT the latest 8.5 version. It only supports XP or higher.

  4. Morphius
    June 15th, 2009 22:44
    6

    Hi Jinesh Now I m going to publish a very cool site for you sooner….

    bye jineshratnawat@in.com

  5. Lew
    June 14th, 2009 05:43
    5

    AVG does not support windows 98 so why do people keep recomending it??
    Also, i was told that there is a version of Advanced windows care for win98…Any thoughts??
    ALSO…
    I have an OLD laptop with VERY limited memory
    (like me:)) and i need an antivirus program.
    Running win98
    Thanks

  6. lopez
    December 10th, 2008 19:09
    4

    Hi!
    Jinesh who is this megha and well i sent a similar answer but i feel Norton and Quick Heal is better than AVG. and yeah Quick Heal suppose to support in full in windows98 too.
    i sent you an inviation on both your account jineshratnawat@yahoo.com and jineshratnawat@gmail.com
    email: jinni_lopez@yahoo.com
    reply sooner…
    lopez

  7. MEGHA
    December 4th, 2008 22:57
    3

    i mailed u at jineshratnawat@yahoo.com : For windows98 its simply AVG is best one. Rest you just upgrade os to xp or vista there are lot of stuff for them.

    megha

  8. Jinesh Ratnawat
    November 18th, 2008 21:46
    2

    which one is the best antivirus for windows98?

    jineshratnawat@yahoo.com

  9. el_harif
    October 6th, 2008 17:00
    1

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