I've posted earlier about strange behavior (and file trashing) regarding
my email inboxes in two different mail programs. I also had bizarre
program terminations with two separate sypware programs. This, of
course, had me suspecting a virus. Yet, when running scans with Grisoft
AVG, nothing was discovered that pointed toward this type of damage. My
highly-experienced DP manager friend suggested that before taking other
actions, I try other antivirus software. He pointed out that it's been
his experience that two different AV programs will often not find the
same viruses. I want to try this.

What other free Antivirus alternatives can you recommend aside from
Grisoft AVG?

Thanks.

Richard

From: "Richard Steinfeld" <(E-Mail Removed)>

| I've posted earlier about strange behavior (and file trashing) regarding
| my email inboxes in two different mail programs. I also had bizarre
| program terminations with two separate sypware programs. This, of
| course, had me suspecting a virus. Yet, when running scans with Grisoft
| AVG, nothing was discovered that pointed toward this type of damage. My
| highly-experienced DP manager friend suggested that before taking other
| actions, I try other antivirus software. He pointed out that it's been
| his experience that two different AV programs will often not find the
| same viruses. I want to try this.
|
| What other free Antivirus alternatives can you recommend aside from
| Grisoft AVG?
|
| Thanks.
|
| Richard

AVAST -
http://www.avast.com/i_idt_1016.html - FREE

AntiVir -
http://www.free-av.com/ - FREE

CA eTrust -
http://www.my-etrust.com/microsoft/index.cfm - FREE for one year.
{ Free offer ends 8/1/05 }

--
Dave
http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
http://www.ik-cs.com/got-a-virus.htm

i recommend AVAST too ...

"Richard Steinfeld" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> I've posted earlier about strange behavior (and file trashing) regarding
> my email inboxes in two different mail programs. I also had bizarre
> program terminations with two separate sypware programs. This, of
> course, had me suspecting a virus. Yet, when running scans with Grisoft
> AVG, nothing was discovered that pointed toward this type of damage. My
> highly-experienced DP manager friend suggested that before taking other
> actions, I try other antivirus software. He pointed out that it's been
> his experience that two different AV programs will often not find the
> same viruses. I want to try this.
>
> What other free Antivirus alternatives can you recommend aside from
> Grisoft AVG?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Richard

Richard Steinfeld wrote:
> I've posted earlier about strange behavior (and file trashing)
> regarding my email inboxes in two different mail programs. I also had
> bizarre program terminations with two separate sypware programs.
> This, of course, had me suspecting a virus. Yet, when running scans
> with Grisoft AVG, nothing was discovered that pointed toward this
> type of damage. My highly-experienced DP manager friend suggested
> that before taking other actions, I try other antivirus software. He
> pointed out that it's been his experience that two different AV
> programs will often not find the same viruses. I want to try this.
>
> What other free Antivirus alternatives can you recommend aside from
> Grisoft AVG?

A very thorough on-demand scan can be done with Trend Micro Sysclean.
The base scan engine can be downloaded here:

http://www.trendmicro.com/download/dcs.asp

Read the readme.txt linked on that page as well.

The definitions update .zip file can be downloaded here:

http://www.trendmicro.com/download/pattern.asp

Be advised that this scan will take a loooog time in comparison to what
you're used to with AVG, and will throw up a series of DOS-style black
screens. Just let it do its thing. It'll tell you when it's done.

Be sure to disable System restore (if applicable) and run all your
cleaners/scanners in Safe Mode whenever possible.

--
Mark Warner
lose .inhibitions when replying

In article <(E-Mail Removed)>,
(E-Mail Removed) says...

>What other free Antivirus alternatives can you recommend aside from
>Grisoft AVG?

F-Prot for DOS caught two trojans on my systems recently that nothing
else I ran had caught.

--

It's always darkest just before it goes pitch black.
--Despair, Inc.

Janice wrote:
> In article <(E-Mail Removed)>,
> (E-Mail Removed) says...
>
>
>>What other free Antivirus alternatives can you recommend aside from
>>Grisoft AVG?
>
>
> F-Prot for DOS caught two trojans on my systems recently that nothing
> else I ran had caught.
>

I'm unclear about the status of F-Prot. As far as I can tell from the
site, their products are regular commercial software.

My second concern regards DOS. As long as I use Windows Me, I can do
scans from the DOS level. I feel good about working in DOS, since I have
a lot more control over it and it's also not exploitable by various
Windows shenanigans (just DOS shenanigans).

So, my question is: can F-Prot for DOS scan and perform corrections on a
Windows 9x system, the same way that AVG booting from the standard
Windows boot disk will?

Richard

Janice <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote :

> In article <(E-Mail Removed)>,
> (E-Mail Removed) says...
>
>>What other free Antivirus alternatives can you recommend aside
>>from Grisoft AVG?
>
> F-Prot for DOS caught two trojans on my systems recently that
> nothing else I ran had caught.

Unfortunately, it doesn't support NTFS formatted partitions, does it ?

--
Antoine

Richard Steinfeld <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
news:(E-Mail Removed):

> Janice wrote:
>> In article <(E-Mail Removed)>,
>> (E-Mail Removed) says...
>>
>>
>>>What other free Antivirus alternatives can you recommend
>>>aside from Grisoft AVG?
>>
>>
>> F-Prot for DOS caught two trojans on my systems recently
>> that nothing else I ran had caught.
>>
>
> I'm unclear about the status of F-Prot. As far as I can
> tell from the site, their products are regular commercial
> software.
>
> My second concern regards DOS. As long as I use Windows Me,
> I can do scans from the DOS level. I feel good about
> working in DOS, since I have a lot more control over it and
> it's also not exploitable by various Windows shenanigans
> (just DOS shenanigans).
>
> So, my question is: can F-Prot for DOS scan and perform
> corrections on a Windows 9x system, the same way that AVG
> booting from the standard Windows boot disk will?
>
> Richard

In re status of F-Prot: see reply in your other thread.

In re F-Prot for DOS scan & fix on W9x: yes. (I cannot compare
F-Prot and AVG because I don't use AVG.)

J
--
Replies to: Nherr1professor2doktor31109(at)Oyahoo(dot)Tcom

In article <Xns966E451FFB3AntoineNews@193.252.117.183>,
(E-Mail Removed) says...
>Janice <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote :

>> F-Prot for DOS caught two trojans on my systems recently that
>> nothing else I ran had caught.
>
>Unfortunately, it doesn't support NTFS formatted partitions, does it ?

No.

--

It's always darkest just before it goes pitch black.
--Despair, Inc.

In article <(E-Mail Removed)>,
(E-Mail Removed) says...

>I'm unclear about the status of F-Prot. As far as I can tell from the
>site, their products are regular commercial software.

The DOS version is free.

>My second concern regards DOS. As long as I use Windows Me, I can do
>scans from the DOS level. I feel good about working in DOS, since I have
>a lot more control over it and it's also not exploitable by various
>Windows shenanigans (just DOS shenanigans).
>
>So, my question is: can F-Prot for DOS scan and perform corrections on a
>Windows 9x system, the same way that AVG booting from the standard
>Windows boot disk will?

I run it from a DOS window in Win 95 and Win 98. You could also boot up
with a boot disk and run it from vanilla DOS (handy if a virus makes it
impossible to boot to the C: drive). It's only an on-demand scanner,
with no real-time protection. But it does make a good backup AV app.

Here are some sites where you can read more about it:

http://claymania.com/f-prot.html

http://www.uzipaz.com/eng/f-prot.html

--

It's always darkest just before it goes pitch black.
--Despair, Inc.