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Posted: Wed Feb 02, 2011 5:32 pm

Is ClamWin still supported on Win98se ? Tried to install and get a message that I need a newer OS ! Crying or Very sad

Posted: Wed Feb 02, 2011 5:45 pm

ClamWin is still supported on Windows 98 and should install okay on it. You might try installing it again if you only tried one time. How much memory do you have?

Regards,

Posted: Wed Feb 02, 2011 6:48 pm

The machine has 512K memory.

Posted: Wed Feb 02, 2011 6:57 pm

GuitarBob wrote:

ClamWin is still supported on Windows 98 and should install okay on it. You might try installing it again if you only tried one time. How much memory do you have?

Regards,

I have tried it a couples of times and I always get the message that a newer OS is expected.
The machine has 512K

Thanks

Posted: Thu Feb 03, 2011 1:35 pm

Andrea Russo, the Clam Sentinel author says that he has alwas used the incremental update for ClamWin and it works fine for him. He also says 512K is too small to run ClamWin -did you mean to say 512K or 512MB?). He has 1GB memory on his Win 98 machine, which works fine. Memory should not be a problem with installation, but more memory is needed to run ClamWin because the database must be loated in memory for every scan.

Regards,

Posted: Thu Feb 03, 2011 7:59 pm

GuitarBob wrote:

Andrea Russo, the Clam Sentinel author says that he has alwas used the incremental update for ClamWin and it works fine for him. He also says 512K is too small to run ClamWin -did you mean to say 512K or 512MB?). He has 1GB memory on his Win 98 machine, which works fine. Memory should not be a problem with installation, but more memory is needed to run ClamWin because the database must be loated in memory for every scan.

Regards,

Sorry I did mean 512 MB. What is meant by the incremental update ? I am installing ClamWin on the win98se machine for the first time.

Thanks

Posted: Fri Feb 04, 2011 1:17 am

The incremental update just has the changes from the previous version. I think you can get the incremental update for version .96.5 at https://sourceforge.net/projects/clamwin/files/clamwin/0.96.5/clamwin-0.96.5-setup-nodb.exe/download on the web.

Regards,

Posted: Fri Feb 04, 2011 5:55 am

Quote:

Sorry I did mean 512 MB.

With 512Mb on Win98SE ClamWin works without problems (if you have at least a processor with 500Mhz).

aru

Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2011 9:34 pm

Howdy Clam Clan,
I'm running w98se on a P2 266mhz with 160megs of ram. I've loaded clamwin .95. Everything seems to work. I've run the scan a couple of times. But I'm thinking twice about upgrading to v .97 as the above conversation implies more horsepower required. On a tangent, the scan shows one badboy - trojan. gummy.bytverify FOUND- and the default setting is to report not quarantine. Probably there's a good reason for that Smile

. Thanks for the work that you do, and TIA for any advice.

bennyb

Posted: Sat Mar 12, 2011 5:51 am

There have been some false positives with older versions lately, as the new version .97 has some enhanced signatures that the older versions just can't interpret properly. That itself is a good reason to bump up your RAM and upgrade, if at all possible.

Regards,