Anti Virus for Windows 98

[#1]

I have an old laptop running Windows 98, used mainly as a backup and as a server for one printer which has a parallel interface whereas all my other pcs have USB.  It has AVG anti-virus which used to work ok even after they stopped supporting Windows 98.  But now they have gone a stage further and no updates can be downloaded and you get a message saying that the versions needs to be updated which it cannot be because the OS is too old !
Some protection is better than none at all, but I wondered whether there were any free anti-virus programmes which still support Windows 98 out there ?  Does anyone know of any by any chance ?
I expect the time is coming to abandon the machine altogether because it is eleven years old but still soldiers on.  If I could find an anti-virus which still works on Windows 98, I would install it.  Any ideas ?

[#2]

One is Clam AV  http://www.clamwin.com/

[#3]

I don't think ClamWin has a resident scanner built-in yet, i.e. it cannot check files automatically as they are accessed (opened/executed).
I only know of two antivirus programs which support Windows 98 and offer resident scanning: Avast and Rising Antivirus (I found them mentioned in an old AVG Free Edition forum message at http://freeforum.avg.com/read.php?8,170008,backpage=5,sv=).
Avast have said they will only support Windows 98 until the end of the year. I don't know how long Rising Antivirus intend to support Windows 98

[#4]

No, ClamWin doesn't do real time scanning, but is otherwise good.
A slightly more radical solution - rather than ditch a working laptop, install a lightweight Linux distribution such as <a href="http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/">DSL</a>. No need for AV then!

[#5]

Don't know of any other AVs (free) other than those mentioned. Maybe some of the purchased internet security suites might do though. '98 is not patched now and therefore not a safe OS to use on the Internet so I would go with Denzil and install one of the Linus Distros on it. Needs a bit of patience to get used to it but worth the hassle IMO.

[#6]

A small linux/unix OS is one option .. but you could always retire the machine and think different.
Wait, wasn't that Apple's slogan at one point?

[#7]

How is it possible to load a virus onto a print server - when it doesn't even need internet access?

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Quote from: Crucibleofevil

How is it possible to load a virus onto a print server - when it doesn't even need internet access?

Who said it did not need internet access ?  I said " used mainly as a backup and as a server for one printer"; "mainly" is not the same thing as "exclusively".  In other words, I do use it for things other than as a print server, but just not all the time.

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This is lateral thinking but with a little shopping around you can buy a USB to parallel adaptor for under a tenner so you could run your printer from another computer.  And it's probably not a good idea to trust your oldest machine as backup.