diskette virus checker

jakkwb · April 21st, 2001, 01:55 PM

Greetings all-
I need a good virus checker that will fit on a floppy(s) that I can download. I suspect either this HD is going bad, or it has a virus. I just did a clean format and re-install of Windows 95, it is still erroring out on me. Scandisk is still reporting size problems in the windows/system dir.

Anyone have any thoughts?

jakkwb · April 21st, 2001, 02:05 PM

One other note - this is an older system with McAffee on it. I cannot run the command line version because it gives me this error:

Self-check failed! Exiting!

This is Scan version V.2.5

I cannot boot windows in any mode, not even safe mode. Is there a easy way to check the HD for looming failure?

Thanks,

Al

Miphnik · April 22nd, 2001, 10:26 PM

Alien,

I spent time trying to do exactly the same thing. I ended up making a bootable CD with F-Prot's DOS based virus scanner.

Works almost perfectly. I tried editing the FINDCD command to launch f-prot.exe on startup but wasn't succesful however I can still type it in from the command line and it runs great. Another, similiar work around would be for you to burn just F-Prot (with latest definitions) to CD and then boot from a floppy with CD support and go from there.

April 21st, 2001, 01:55 PM	#1
jakkwb Registered User Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 711	diskette virus checker Greetings all- I need a good virus checker that will fit on a floppy(s) that I can download. I suspect either this HD is going bad, or it has a virus. I just did a clean format and re-install of Windows 95, it is still erroring out on me. Scandisk is still reporting size problems in the windows/system dir. Anyone have any thoughts? __________________ "It is very dark here. You are likely to be eaten by a grue."

April 21st, 2001, 02:05 PM	#2
jakkwb Registered User Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 711	One other note - this is an older system with McAffee on it. I cannot run the command line version because it gives me this error: Self-check failed! Exiting! This is Scan version V.2.5 I cannot boot windows in any mode, not even safe mode. Is there a easy way to check the HD for looming failure? Thanks, Al __________________ "It is very dark here. You are likely to be eaten by a grue."

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April 22nd, 2001, 10:26 PM	#3
Miphnik Registered User Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: Sacramento, CA Posts: 35	Alien, I spent time trying to do exactly the same thing. I ended up making a bootable CD with F-Prot's DOS based virus scanner. Works almost perfectly. I tried editing the FINDCD command to launch f-prot.exe on startup but wasn't succesful however I can still type it in from the command line and it runs great. Another, similiar work around would be for you to burn just F-Prot (with latest definitions) to CD and then boot from a floppy with CD support and go from there.