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by ffontan1

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Hi, tech

Is there a virus program out there that can run directly from a floppy or CD
in which
it does not need to be installed on a PC to run and scan for viruses as well
as it can be updated.

I have more then one PC(at home, work and vacation home)and
they have no internet or virus programs on them.

But I do have NORTON ANTIVIRUS on one PC and also the internet.

Can the above be done?

I want to use a different virus program then just the one I have.

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by jdmercha

You can download Bart's PE for free. It creates a boot CD that will allow you to run McAfee, amoung other things, as long as you have a licensed copy of XP and those other things.

by bobho

If you can't make dos disks from your current anti-virus product and are just looking for a dos virus scanner you can go to www.f-prot.com and get f-prot for dos. It's a free product for home use. It will not, however, access ntfs volumes and you will need to manually update the definition files.

I'm not aware of any anti-virus windows program that will run from a cd but there are a few web-based programs you can use. Check out www.pandasoftware.com and look for the ActiveScan toward the bottom on the left-hand side. These types of scanners can be run at anytime but they do not provide continuous protectioin like and installed solution would.

See ya,

Doc.

by rindi1

I have a bootable CD running Linux and it also has an antivirus Program on it. If you have a Lan connection to the internet the antivirus program can download the newest antivirus definition from there and so it is up-to-date. This program can scan ntfs volumes for virae. My problem is this CD is pretty large (I could create an image file of it, so it could be burned to a CD). If you have access to an FTP Site or something similar, I could send you a copy of such a CD image (~700MB). This size is to large to email

by pierrejamme

As far as a floppy goes, there are so many viruses to check for these days it won't fit on a disk. Stinger at:http://vil.nai.com/vil/stinger/,
will fit on a floppy for carrying, but I think it has to be copied to the hard drive so it can create it's report. It only checks for the prevalent 42 viruses though. It is possible that the program and the report will fit.
Another DOS program I use all the time that will fit (1.08MB) also needs to be expanded to the hard drive, NOD32 from: http://www.nod32.com/download/trial.htm
Good Luck,

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