Good DOS AV Scanner

Can anyone recommend a good DOS scanner that will fit on 1x3.5" FD ?

Basically any windows version from any company will give you the choice of creating DOS floppies, I use InoculateIt and it works really well, but you need two floppies.

F-PROT is really...

Try to avoid Thunder byte AntiVirus...garbage

tonnes 'o' problems with that program

I've used Norton to scan a bunch of disks in a computer lab that we had an outbreak in. I put it on a DOS machine and it worked fine.

PC Cillin has a good DOS based scanner program but it's big... need 5 floppies. But it works well.

My favorite AV dos boot disk is norton from a few versions back - with updated sigs of course. It tells you what is goin on a little better than others.

I use norton for a dos scanner. Just set it up on a bootable cd. And if you use it on a R/W you can update the virus defenitions all the time. Works like a charm

I use F-Prot. Yes, normally the program and defs are too big for a floppy. But I've found a great way to make it all work. I've created a 1.75MB floppy that automatically unzips f-prot into a 2MB ramdrive and then scans all hard disks. I use the latest version of f-prot with the latest definitions. Works like a charm! I checked the size of everything, and using compression and formating at 1.75MB, I've managed to fit almost 2.5MB on a 1.44MB floppy. :-)

Do the F-Prot & PC Illin require that you "install" them from the floppies, or can you just run a scan on a system using them?

I was looking for a really good product to use as a boot floppy & run the scan myself.

sykophreak, I wouldn't mind a copy of that floppy you created.....

I created a website for you to download the disk image and writing utility. Go to:
<a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ar2/sykocomputerguy/index.html">http://www.angelfire.com/ar2/sykocomputerguy/index.html</a>

simple:
go to Bootdisk.com
and download the f-prot image for a bootdisk.
prog and latest updates on a 1.44

Ok... I went back and changed it so you can just download an executable disk image of my fprot bootdisk. If you like, you can still download the image writing utility that will allow you to format a disk for 1.75MB. The image from bootdisk.com doesn't seem to be bootable. I'll also try to make sure that my disk image is up-to-date for you.

sorry,
the f-prot disk at bootdisk.com isn't bootable. my mistake.

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Originally posted by reap:
<STRONG>I use norton for a dos scanner. Just set it up on a bootable cd. And if you use it on a R/W you can update the virus defenitions all the time. Works like a charm</STRONG>

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or a multisession cdr (which is better since most customer machines dont support RWs)

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Originally posted by sykophreak:
<STRONG>I use F-Prot. Yes, normally the program and defs are too big for a floppy. But I've found a great way to make it all work. I've created a 1.75MB floppy that automatically unzips f-prot into a 2MB ramdrive and then scans all hard disks. I use the latest version of f-prot with the latest definitions. Works like a charm! I checked the size of everything, and using compression and formating at 1.75MB, I've managed to fit almost 2.5MB on a 1.44MB floppy. :-)</STRONG>

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I use f-prot too. but I zip it in a floppy and unzip it into the system harddrive and the run it from there . I also copy pkunzip.exe in the same floppy and it works.
Just Keep updating the signature files

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do you need something like this ?

ftp://147.234.1.253/pub/f-prot.exe


I made this floppy last week ..

It's F-prot on a 1.68 MB bootable floppy (will format on it's own..)

it will extract f-prot.rar to c:\f-prot and scan all HDDs (FAT or FAT32)

you can get F-prot updates here :

ftp://ftp.datafellows.com/f-prot/upd...rot/fp-def.zip


Extract the two *.def files to c:\f-prot

and

ftp://ftp.deatafellows.com/f-prot/up.../dos/macro.def

copy this file to c:\f-prot


if you want to update the RAR file on the Floppy you will need RAR FOR DOS (DO NOT TRY TO USE WINRAR !!!!)

you can get it here :
http://www.rarsoft.com


Enjoy..

I have made myself a Bootable CDROM with lots of DOSie Stuff including Mcafee AV.
This is by far the Best choice because i can insert many diag, Utils inside one Bootable CDROM.
I have also icluded Images of Boot Floppies inside that CDROM

MMMMmmmm - I love myself...

[This is GREAT thanks for the advice Sykophreak. Best I've seen!!! If you are looking for a great solution for doing a virus check with a bootable disk Syko's link to his site is what you want!!!

Thanks, Stecktech!

I try to update the executable download at least once ever week or two. If you ever have any problems with it, let me know.

[email protected]

Again, here's the <a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ar2/sykocomputerguy">link</a>.