What anti virus scanner to use?

[riddellcomp]

Can someone suggest a good anti virus scanner that I can install onto floppy discs or burn to cd-rom? I want to be able to use this in the field to do a full system check for viruses on clients computers.
I have seen AVG mentioned on this forum.
Can AVG be used like this or does it have to be installed onto a computer first.

Thanks,

Trueman.

[Jeff the Brit]

F-Prot for DOS from www.complex.is ... works really sweet on 95/98 boxes. I've never tried it on 2k/XP boxes formatted as NTFS, I'd imagine it would be a problem though.

[riddellcomp]

Jeff,

I checked out F-prot and apparently the latest version works with XP/2k with NTFS.
How do you set it up?
I was going to burn the program files to a cd-rom and then have the latest definition files onto a floppy. However this means I still always have to install the program on the client computer. Is there a way that I can use f-prot without having to install it first?

Thanks.

[geeksRus]

put it on a CD as the previous post says...or go HERE for instructions for making the floppies. you need 3.

[riddellcomp]

What about updating the virus defs? I would prefer to have the prog on cd but then I have to burn a new cd each time I update the virus defs. I might take a look at your link to put it on 3 floppys so at least I can just copy new virus defs to the existing floppy each time I update.
Is that what others here do?

[slgrieb]

Norton AV and SystemWorks can be run from CD. In fact, the distribution disk is bootable. The program can be be configured to use updated virus definfitions via command line switch. You also must have an OS that runs well enough to let you copy the virus def updates to the disk and extract them. If you have Norton installed on a Windows 9x machine, you can make bootable floppies and run the program from them. BUT the programs run from DOS and only work for FAT voulumes. Don't know of anything that can be run from CD or diskette that works for NTFS.

[Sp0cK]

Can someone suggest a good anti virus scanner that I can install onto floppy discs or burn to cd-rom? I want to be able to use this in the field to do a full system check for viruses on clients computers.
I have seen AVG mentioned on this forum.
Can AVG be used like this or does it have to be installed onto a computer first.

Thanks,

Trueman.

Panda 7.x Anti Virus is great. Norton is also good but slows my system a bit. When you install panda you can have it scan for viruses in memory and or the HD. After the scan is done, you can abort the install. Panda is great because you install it and you are done. It updates for virus def. every day. you might add protection from one virus one hour and 5 hours later 6 more. You can watch the list go up anywhere from 1-10 a day. And upades are fast as hell. You can install a year old version on a PC w/ a modem and it will be up to date within minutes if not less.... Norton will have to do several megs (15-60 minutes for an update vs 10-60 seconds).... As so do the other scanners. Something to think about....

It includes a firewall, e-mail scanner and the standard auto protect.
And it talks....

If you agree on this or disagree please let me know why...(Details!!)

[riddellcomp]

Panda 7.x Anti Virus is great. Norton is also good but slows my system a bit. When you install panda you can have it scan for viruses in memory and or the HD. After the scan is done, you can abort the install. Panda is great because you install it and you are done. It updates for virus def. every day. you might add protection from one virus one hour and 5 hours later 6 more. You can watch the list go up anywhere from 1-10 a day. And upades are fast as hell. You can install a year old version on a PC w/ a modem and it will be up to date within minutes if not less.... Norton will have to do several megs (15-60 minutes for an update vs 10-60 seconds).... As so do the other scanners. Something to think about....

It includes a firewall, e-mail scanner and the standard auto protect.
And it talks....

If you agree on this or disagree please let me know why...(Details!!)

Yes but can you use it to scan an NTFS drive that will not boot into XP.
I want to be able to boot with a floppy and then scan a NTFS drive for viruses on clients computers.

[Sp0cK]

Yes but can you use it to scan an NTFS drive that will not boot into XP.
I want to be able to boot with a floppy and then scan a NTFS drive for viruses on clients computers.

You can creat an emergeny disk with panda, it takes 4 disk but it maybe able to scan your drive also... a second thing you could try is simply moving the HD to a dif. comptuer and scanning it that way... if you still need help just ask...
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