Multiple Virus Scanners: AEC Trustport: Similar freeware: Help

[robb]

I ran into an article which mentioned AEC Trustport in Informationb
Week, how it allowed for several virus search engines to work without
conflicts. The trustport platform licenced other anti-virus engines
to work in this wise: one was going real time, and others were going
on demand. Generally the received wisdom is that virus scans conflict
with one another and the system is at best a hash and at worst a
crash. Trustport has a platform to remove this issue.
I contacted their support and requested a freeware version. No-
go, they do not have one, have no plans to make one. Fine, but here
are my questions:
(1) is there software which would allow me to use a software "toggle
switch" so to speak, and turn on a real time virs scanner and at the
same time turn off an on demand virus scanner, maybe several of them?;
(2) is there any rare or obsolete freeware which will allow the use of
more than one virus scan?
Yes, some will say, they get along fine with three, but I
disagree. Could anyone advise me of how to get, say, AVG and Zone
Alarm and some others, all freeware virus scans, to coexist and not
conflict on my PC, if I run them--NOT concurrently, but in
succession. Maybe,hypothetically, AVG virus scan as a real time
scanner and Zone Alarm on demand, and two others on demand,
hypothetically. Then maybe I want to make Zone Alarm the real time
scanner, etc. etc. Got the idea?
Someone please advise or help if you have the freeware to do it.
I thank you very much.
Robb

 

[What's in a Name?]

robb <[email protected]> after much thought,came up with this
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Someone please advise

Answered in alt.windows-xp
You need to learn to cross-post instead of multi-post.
Perhaps using a real newsreader would help.

max

 

[David H. Lipman]

From: "robb" <[email protected]>

Max is correct. Plaese don't Multi-Post.
I see you also posted in another group not mentioned in Max's reply.

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| I ran into an article which mentioned AEC Trustport in Informationb
| Week, how it allowed for several virus search engines to work without
| conflicts. The trustport platform licenced other anti-virus engines
| to work in this wise: one was going real time, and others were going
| on demand. Generally the received wisdom is that virus scans conflict
| with one another and the system is at best a hash and at worst a
| crash. Trustport has a platform to remove this issue.


This is most common for Email servers like MS Exchange erver.


| I contacted their support and requested a freeware version. No- go, they do not have
| one, have no plans to make one. Fine, but here are my questions:
| (1) is there software which would allow me to use a software "toggle
| switch" so to speak, and turn on a real time virs scanner and at the
| same time turn off an on demand virus scanner, maybe several of them?;


On a desktop PC, you can numerous "On Demand" scanners but should only have one "On Access"
scanner. You don't turn-off "On Demand" scanning. You just don't cause the "on Demand"
process to start. i think you are confusing the two concepts of "On Demand" and "On Access"
scanning.


| (2) is there any rare or obsolete freeware which will allow the use of
| more than one virus scan?

There are many usable "On Demand" scanners you can use to supplement the one "On Access"
scanner.
My Multi AV Scanning Tool is but one example. The free BitDefender is another.

| Yes, some will say, they get along fine with three, but I
| disagree. Could anyone advise me of how to get, say, AVG and Zone
| Alarm and some others, all freeware virus scans, to coexist and not
| conflict on my PC, if I run them--NOT concurrently, but in
| succession. Maybe,hypothetically, AVG virus scan as a real time
| scanner and Zone Alarm on demand, and two others on demand,
| hypothetically. Then maybe I want to make Zone Alarm the real time
| scanner, etc. etc. Got the idea?
| Someone please advise or help if you have the freeware to do it.
| I thank you very much.
| Robb


Download MULTI_AV.EXE from the URL --
http://www.pctipp.ch/ds/28400/28470/Multi_AV.exe

http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp

English:
http://www.raymond.cc/blog/archives/2008/01/09/scan-your-computer-with-multiple-anti-virus-for-free/

To use this utility, perform the following...
Execute; Multi_AV.exe { Note: You must use the default folder C:\AV-CLS }
Choose; Unzip
Choose; Close

Execute; C:\AV-CLS\StartMenu.BAT
{ or Double-click on 'Start Menu' in C:\AV-CLS }

NOTE: You may have to disable your software FireWall or allow WGET.EXE to go through your
FireWall to allow it to download the needed AV vendor related files.

C:\AV-CLS\StartMenu.BAT -- { or Double-click on 'Start Menu' in C:\AV-CLS}
This will bring up the initial menu of choices and should be executed in Normal Mode.
This way all the components can be downloaded from each AV vendor's web site.
The choices are; Sophos, Trend, McAfee, Kaspersky, Exit this menu and Reboot the PC.

You can choose to go to each menu item and just download the needed files or you can
download the files and perform a scan in Normal Mode. Once you have downloaded the files
needed for each scanner you want to use, you should reboot the PC into Safe Mode [F8 key
during boot] and re-run the menu again and choose which scanner you want to run in Safe
Mode. It is suggested to run the scanners in both Safe Mode and Normal Mode.

When the menu is displayed hitting 'H' or 'h' will bring up a more comprehensive PDF help
file.

Additional Instructions:
http://pcdid.com/Multi_AV.htm


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