[olug] [OT} Anti-virus boot scheme

[Rob Townley]

One thing that has annoyed me in the past about the boot up scanning
is that often times you have to burn a new cd to get updated virus
defintions.  What good is it to scan with a year old Norton CD?  It
does not seem too hard to pull down new definitions when booted from
the CD given there is enough ramdisk space.  Anybody if F.I.R.E. can
update its virus defintions when booted from the CD?  There are all
kinds of software out there with this capability.  WIth 100,000
threats out there, a floppy diskette is not big enough.  McAfee's dat
download is ~3MB.


BTW, Mcafee altogether gave up on a bootable virus scanner.  It can
run from a BartPE disk however.


On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 12:17:31 -0600, Don Kauffman <dekauff at cox.net> wrote:
> Norton DOES have a pre-install scan according to this..
> http://www.symantec.com/nav/nav_9xnt/features.html
> 
> Don K.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, 2004-11-23 at 12:01, Don Kauffman wrote:
> > I assume they are running Windoze of some version. McAfee has a free
> > virus scan on their website. I've used it a couple of times and it's
> > pretty good. It will give information as to what viri or worms infect
> > the computer and tells you how to get rid of them.
> >
> > http://us.mcafee.com/root/mfs/default.asp
> >
> > I think  that Norton AV has an option to scan before installation but I
> > can't say for sure. That's one thing you might check out.
> >
> > Don Kauffman
> >
> > On Tue, 2004-11-23 at 11:43, Mike Hostetler wrote:
> > > I volunteered my troubleshooting services to someone who seems to
> > > either have a virus issues or a power supply.  The issue is that the
> > > machine mysteriously shutsdown -- usually a sign of overheating from
> > > my experience, and I've seen viruses take up so many CPU cycles that
> > > the CPU overheats.  I've also seen just bad power supplies as well.
> > >
> > > Anyway, back in the day (mid to late 90's) the most accepted way to
> > > scan for viruses was to boot from a floppy with a virus scanner on it
> > > to scan the hard drive.  Since I'm sure that this machine doesn't have
> > > an anti-virus on it, I don't want to load one on an already-infected
> > > machine.  Does anyone know of a modern anti-virus that you can use on
> > > a boot floppy or CD-ROM?
> >
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