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  1. January 21st, 2003, 07:26 PM #1
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    Floppy or CD-based antivirus -- any still exist?

    I used to have both Norton and PC-Cillen diskettes that booted and ran basic virus removal from the DOS prompt (three and four disk sets). They fell out of date when I lost the license, then it seemed like the companies stopped issuing this sort of thing.

    Does anybody know which if any companies/products out there still offer this feature? I could REALLY use it these days...
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  2. January 21st, 2003, 07:35 PM #2
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  3. January 21st, 2003, 07:45 PM #3
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    Hmm, I was going to suggest F-prot, here:

    ftp://ftp.f-secure.com/anti-virus/free/

    but the files didn't seem to be up-to-date.

    However on NooNoo's link here:

    http://www.simtel.net/pub/pd/53465.html

    there's an F-prot signature file only a few days old.

    It's been some time since the installation has been able to fit on a single floppy disk.

    Hints on using DOS F-prot:

    http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/ITS/faq/...os.html#latest
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  4. January 21st, 2003, 08:15 PM #4
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    ty guys, off to try them
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  5. January 21st, 2003, 09:16 PM #5
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    Originally posted by NooNoo
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    Great link NooNoo
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  6. January 21st, 2003, 09:18 PM #6
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    Oooppss, I was distracted by the links above and forgot to post this:

    Trend Micro Rescue Disk Builder
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