Re: Antivirus recommendation for Win 95

On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 10:54:50AM -0700, Political Science Computer Support wrote:
> Hi there,
> I support a faculty member who has decided to keep using his Windows
> 95 computer. He rarely browses the web and mainly uses it for local
> word processing and connecting to his email server via telnet. I just
> discovered that neither Symantec Antivirus nor ZoneAlarm will run on Win 95.
> Are there good AV and firewall programs for Win 95?

Windows 95 and telnet are both disallowed under the campus minimum
security standards. I would suggest that one of the major reasons for
the existence of the standards is so technical folks have a lever to
use on faculty members who do not wish to assume their
responsibilities as network citizens.

You should tell the faculty member that he can keep using Win95 after
May 1st only if he takes the machine off the network entirely, so this might
be a good time to upgrade.

-- 
Tom Holub (tom_holub@LS.Berkeley.EDU, 510-642-9069)
College of Letters & Science
249 Campbell Hall
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