Network Scanner

[Ant]

Hi, Is there a virus scanner that will scan across a small home network of
three machines. One of them has become infected, some how the virus
protection had been deactivated, and could have been like this for days, I
have tried to run a scan, but PC freezes, also it will not allow me to
connect to an online scanner. It gets worse, I decided to format, and
reinstall XP Pro, but again problems, it comes up with an error while
loading the XP files, and stops the install. I have also tried safe mode,
again freezes, nor will it let me access a system restore point. I suppose I
could remove the drive, and slave it on one of the other machines, but it
would be nice if I could find something that would scan across the network.
Any ideas please.

Ant.

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[Duane Arnold]

Hi, Is there a virus scanner that will scan across a small home
network of three machines. One of them has become infected, some how
the virus protection had been deactivated, and could have been like
this for days, I have tried to run a scan, but PC freezes, also it
will not allow me to connect to an online scanner. It gets worse, I
decided to format, and reinstall XP Pro, but again problems, it comes
up with an error while loading the XP files, and stops the install. I
have also tried safe mode, again freezes, nor will it let me access a
system restore point. I suppose I could remove the drive, and slave it
on one of the other machines, but it would be nice if I could find
something that would scan across the network. Any ideas please.

Ant.

I would think that any AV will allow the scanning of a mapped network drive
from the scanning machine running the AV to the machine that needs to be
scanned. For sure, the full trial version of NOD32 running on one machine
can scan the drive of another machine on the network. I have also done that
with Norton.

You may also want to look into using some of the tools in the link such as
Process Explorer that may help you pin point the culprit. PE lets you look
at all running processes on the machine and will allow you to look insides
a process to see the processes using that process.

http://tinyurl.com/klw1

Duane

 

[David H. Lipman]

The problem with doing a remote scan that is the scanner may remove the file(s) but since
the scanner is not running from the POV of the infected platform, the Registry may not be
cleaned of alterations.

Dave


|
| I would think that any AV will allow the scanning of a mapped network drive
| from the scanning machine running the AV to the machine that needs to be
| scanned. For sure, the full trial version of NOD32 running on one machine
| can scan the drive of another machine on the network. I have also done that
| with Norton.
|
| You may also want to look into using some of the tools in the link such as
| Process Explorer that may help you pin point the culprit. PE lets you look
| at all running processes on the machine and will allow you to look insides
| a process to see the processes using that process.
|
| http://tinyurl.com/klw1
|
| Duane