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Update McAfee boot disk?

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by michelinda 1 view

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I have McAfee Virus protection on our pc's. I update the virus files regularly. But sometimes I have one really acting up and not capable of making it to Windows and the first thing I like to do is run a boot disk with the McAfee on it. My virus boot disk is really outdated. How do I get the boot disk to look for the latest virus, not the ones it came out with in 98? Is there a way to get the dat files on the boot and have it use more recent files? I tried, but apparently didn't do it right.

Thank you in advance.

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by big ray

Trust me you did do it right. The problem is that there is not enough room on a diskette for the current version of the McAfee Dats. I believe the latest set of Dats is about 2 meg in size. If you have Mcafee already on the PC then run the boot disk and you should be able to use the dats that are already on the PC to scan itself. If they are not current or not on their period use a standard boot disk to copy the current dats to a temp directory on the PC. Boot the PC using the McAfee Boot Disk and then tell the boot disk to use the Dats in the Temp directory to scan.

by big ray

I also forgot that another thing you can do is not use a boot disk. If you suspect a virus, boot using a standard boot disk and then in the Mcafee directory run scanpm.exe This is the DOS based version of the scanner. It will clear everything except a boot sector virus.

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