mobile anti-virus needed

[badgolferman]

I am looking for a decent free anti-virus program that I can put on a
flash drive and use to scan other offline PCs. I thought F-PROT for
DOS would work but it doesn't support NTFS systems and doesn't work
very well from within a DOS box.

Does anyone know a way I can install an AV to a flash drive and carry
it around to other W2K/WXP computers?

 

[Dave Budd]

I am looking for a decent free anti-virus program that I can put on a
flash drive and use to scan other offline PCs. I thought F-PROT for
DOS would work but it doesn't support NTFS systems and doesn't work
very well from within a DOS box.

Does anyone know a way I can install an AV to a flash drive and carry
it around to other W2K/WXP computers?

I carry the Sophos command line tool SAV32CLI and its
supporting files plus the latest IDE set, zipped up in to a
single file, on mine.
Plus an easy-install version of McAfee's VirusScan that I
generated with the Installation Designer and zipped up, along
with the latest SDAT.
I keep an unzipper on there for the awkward customers, too.

 

[badgolferman]

I carry the Sophos command line tool SAV32CLI and its
supporting files plus the latest IDE set, zipped up in to a
single file, on mine.

It appears that is part of the full program.
"SAV32CLI, the command line scanner for Windows NT, Windows 2000,
Windows XP and Windows 2003, is installed automatically as part of
Sophos Anti-Virus for Windows NT/2000/XP/2003."
How did you make this work on your removable drive?

 

[Dave Budd]

It appears that is part of the full program.
"SAV32CLI, the command line scanner for Windows NT, Windows 2000,
Windows XP and Windows 2003, is installed automatically as part of
Sophos Anti-Virus for Windows NT/2000/XP/2003."
How did you make this work on your removable drive?

It does get installed along with the main product, yes, but the
delivery CD also has it in a separate folder, so I can just
pick that bit off. It's also downloadable from the Sophos
website, if you can find it, I think.
I take the .exe, the dll files and vdl etc etc it needs, plus
the latest set of IDE files, and zip them up. I unzip them onto
the target machine then CD to whichever folder I used and run
SAV32CLI c:\*.* -di -remove -f -dn
That takes anything up to 4 hours, depending how many mp3 files
there are...
I haven't yet bothered making the zip into an exe that runs
that command automatically, but I do for the VirusScan zip - I
have that run the VirusScan installer.
I like to run SAV32CLI from Safe Mode With Command Prompt and
then run VirusScan from Safe Mode (though you need Normal Mode
to install it)

 

[David H. Lipman]

From: "Dave Budd" <[email protected]>

| It does get installed along with the main product, yes, but the
| delivery CD also has it in a separate folder, so I can just
| pick that bit off. It's also downloadable from the Sophos
| website, if you can find it, I think.
| I take the .exe, the dll files and vdl etc etc it needs, plus
| the latest set of IDE files, and zip them up. I unzip them onto
| the target machine then CD to whichever folder I used and run
| SAV32CLI c:\*.* -di -remove -f -dn
| That takes anything up to 4 hours, depending how many mp3 files
| there are...
| I haven't yet bothered making the zip into an exe that runs
| that command automatically, but I do for the VirusScan zip - I
| have that run the VirusScan installer.
| I like to run SAV32CLI from Safe Mode With Command Prompt and
| then run VirusScan from Safe Mode (though you need Normal Mode
| to install it)
|
| --
| UN-altered REPRODUCTION and DISSEMINATION of this IMPORTANT
| information is ENCOURAGED.

Based upon what you have written, I am suprised you have not mentioned the McAfee Command
Line Scanner.

 

[Dave Budd]

Based upon what you have written, I am suprised you have not mentioned the McAfee Command
Line Scanner.

Well, if I'm going to do 2 scans, I like to use separate
products, and this month I prefer McAfee for the Safe Mode
level scan so I use Sophos for the SM+CP scan.
Next month I may do it the other way round: and I keep meaning
to have a look at the Trend one you keep posting links for. Is
it a usable-for-a-trial-period-and-then-you-can't-install-it-
again one, or totally free? There was a guy from Trend at a
recent seminar I went to and he certainly talked the talk -
I'll be looking closely at their stuff when next licence
renewal comes around.

 

[David H. Lipman]

From: "Dave Budd" <[email protected]>

| In article <CrEXd.60390$uc.21005@trnddc03>,
| [email protected] says...
||
| Well, if I'm going to do 2 scans, I like to use separate
| products, and this month I prefer McAfee for the Safe Mode
| level scan so I use Sophos for the SM+CP scan.
| Next month I may do it the other way round: and I keep meaning
| to have a look at the Trend one you keep posting links for. Is
| it a usable-for-a-trial-period-and-then-you-can't-install-it-
| again one, or totally free? There was a guy from Trend at a
| recent seminar I went to and he certainly talked the talk -
| I'll be looking closely at their stuff when next licence
| renewal comes around.
|
| --
| UN-altered REPRODUCTION and DISSEMINATION of this IMPORTANT
| information is ENCOURAGED.

TrendMicro Sysclean is totally Free and needs to no installer.

Who was that Trend person; Richard Ku ?

 

[Dave Budd]

Who was that Trend person; Richard Ku ?

Peter Craig

 

[badgolferman]

Based upon what you have written, I am suprised you have not

mentioned the McAfee Command Line Scanner.

Is this product available for me to download and will it work from a
flash drive?

 

[badgolferman]

From: "Dave Budd" <[email protected]>


mentioned the McAfee Command >> Line Scanner.

TrendMicro Sysclean is totally Free and needs to no installer.

Thanks, this product seems to work the way I want.

 

[Dave S]

Is this product available for me to download and will it work from a
flash drive?

How about McAfee AVERT Stinger:

http://vil.nai.com/vil/stinger/

It's available for download and fits on a floppy.
Scan only, for the "Top Forty" (or fifty, maybe) threats.

 

[Dave Budd]

How about McAfee AVERT Stinger:

http://vil.nai.com/vil/stinger/

It's available for download and fits on a floppy.
Scan only, for the "Top Forty" (or fifty, maybe) threats.

yeh, I generally set that going on dirty machines while I'm
updating all the stuff on my flashdrive...