Anti-virus Software

[mjc]

I'm looking for an anti-virus program, it needs to have the following features:

Stand alone
DOS level functionality
Fit on a single floppy
Updateable
Low cost



Am I asking too much?

I use McAfee on my own machine but I'm looking for something that is portable (so I can take it to father-in-law's, mom's or where ever I need it)

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mjc
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Evil wizards, evil creatures from the foulest pits of the nether world....scary? Nah, WindowsME now that's scary!

[Fish]

InnoculateIt is what I use. It's free and you get free updates. If you want to take a look at it, you can go here. http://antivirus.cai.com/ You can get a free scan also here. http://housecall.antivirus.com/housecall/start_pcc.asp I have no idea what you're talking about with the DOS level functionality tho.

[This message has been edited by Fish (edited 03-27-2001).]

[mjc]

Works in DOS, outside of Windows. The McAfee makes a boot disk so it can be used on any machine that has a floppy drive.

Oh, before anyone suggests it, the latest version of F-prot DOES NOTfit on a floppy......AAAAAARRRRRRRGGGGGHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!

That's why I'm looking for something else.

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Evil wizards, evil creatures from the foulest pits of the nether world....scary? Nah, WindowsME now that's scary!

[Randy_tx]

I've been using Trend Micro Housecall for about a year now on ANY machine that can log on the internet.......beats anything I've seen except Norton Antivirus 2001 which probably doesnt have a bootable disk ver.

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[bassvax]

Oh contrar Randy...I use NAV SystemWorks 2001 and when you create your rescue disks it includes a bootable disk to do your clean up work in dos. Of course this is 7 disks we're talking about though...sorry MJC no reccomendations here.

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Jerry

[Paleo Pete]

Try SimTel (http://www.simtel.net/) very good list of shareware/freeware, unfortunately winfiles is now no longer in existence, that was a very good site too. Sure gonna miss winfiles...

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[mjc]

I found a utility that creates a bootable disk using one of several different anti-virus programs, it takes and makes a bootable disk then puts ramdrive on it and then the AV program. It is AVDisk (http://members.nbci.com/avdisk/).

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mjc
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Do Vulcans even have to debug?

[Icy]

Out of all those (that I've had experience with) I would have to choose innoculate as my favorite. Try them and make your own decisions however.

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ICY

[Paleo Pete]

mjc: Sorry, I forgot about this one, if you'll check Boot Disk (http://www.bootdisk.com) you'll find F-Prot v3.08 for 1.44MB floppy. Scroll down to the antivirus links.

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[mjc]

thanks Pete


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Do Vulcans even have to debug?