[anglin_fool]

Originally Posted by Blue Zee

If it works (and it does!) why do you feel the need to update?

I was thinking the definitions needed updating?

[Blue Zee]

ZoneAlarm doesn't work with definitions.

ZA is a software firewall, see this for better understanding:

What is a firewall?

Zee

[anglin_fool]

The program always asks to update its program. I used to say ok but then it says ME isn't supported. So it's like I am not using an up-to-date firewall.

[Blue Zee]

No, that only means the more recent versions of ZA require WinXP upwards OSs.

You can turn off automatic updates in Overview > Preferences tab.

Zee

[anglin_fool]

I did that when they said they no longer supported ME. i.e., why would a firewall need updating in XP, but as they say, not for ME? It was upgraded many times when they did support ME. I just thought they were definitions.

Which goes back to my question. Is there a free firewall provider that still supports ME.

[aarhus2004]

http://forums.techguy.org/18-all-other-software/

Ben.

[aarhus2004]

Hello WinMe users,

Please excuse a sailor's jargon!

A while ago in this thread we learned, what some of us perhaps found alarming, about the possible ending of AVG Free. I believe we have since had reassurances that this may have been a rumour. I am not sure about it one way or another.

It did prompt me to explore alternatives. Among them AVAST Free. Here.

Ignore the fact that I do not use anti-virus, free or software, on my WinMe computer. This as a normal course of events. But since aquiring (probably temporarily) an XP computer in the form of an Asus A9Rp Notebook I have something to share. On the laptop (Notebook) I am using AVAST. I like it well enough to have installed it on my WinMe machine also - for testing purposes.

On the laptop I had first of all used AVG with which most of us are very familiar. It had been some time since I had used it - a couple of years at least. Try as I may I could not become comfortable with it. I downloaded AVAST. And have been delighted in every way with it. It is a no-nonsense freeware, and I believe is at least as efficient as AVG. If not more so. I has several features which I find particularly impressive perhaps merely by their ease of use (AVG may have them too but I was daunted by its GUI and settings).

In AVAST (and the subject of one of the attached) is the VRDB. This can be configured readily to run in several modes or not at all. The depth of scanning is a simple adjustment too - a sliding bar-scale. I have not found scanning schedules and this has not deterred me, but updates are automatic with a check at boot-up. A HDD boot-sector scan can be programmed to run at boot-up or not - user's choice.

I think Avast great value for the money!!

Cheers.

Ben.

[ekim68]

Wow, good stuff Ben...AVG has been losing me as of late...Going the way of Norton and McAfee, IMO...Too ubiquitous...

[aarhus2004]

Hello WinMe users,

If you have a version of Process Explorer which is working - STAY WITH IT - do not think of updating and downloading a newer version. Do not delete the version you have. No old versions are available by design. I know this to be a fact. If you wish please read these threads on the System Internals website:

Here and here

Process Explorer - Major changes afoot. BEWARE.

Mr Russinovitch and his superb tool - Process Explorer - are now part and parcel of Microsoft. Only one version is available across the net - the current one 11.13. And only the then current version maybe available in the future.

This current version does not work with Windows 9x or Windows NT. It is not about to be made to do so. The TechNet download site, and home to Process Explorer, makes no mention of these limitations - in fact quite the contrary. It says that it is compatible.

Cheers.

Ben.

P.S. Perhaps you have, as I have, a buddy who has a working copy. Perhaps he or she may share it - as did mine - thanks GoJoAGoGo .

Pass the word to friends who are not members here yet use P.E.

[Blue Zee]

Old versions of Process Explorer were available here:

http://www.filehippo.com/download_process_explorer/

Technet removed the old files so links no longer work...

That's simply stupid.

But wondering why FileHippo doesn't use this link...
http://www.filehippo.com/download/b1...8b3ef/download

Process Explorer 10.2 is the last version before being taken over by Microsoft.

Note and warning: it doesn't work well on my WinXP!

Zee