ntfspro anti-virus

[Patrick Sharkey]

Greetings from Ireland,

Since first discovering over 18 months ago that program of great
potential called NTFSDOS Professional, I have spent 3 or 4 spells of a
fortnight or so at a time trying to incorporate it into a bootable
floppy from which I could run the command-line kaspersky anti-virus
scanner on an ntfs partition.

The fact that I am now writing this plea for help shows that all my
efforts have failed.

I have tried running NTFSDOS Professional both with and without the
spawn switch /s

NTFSDOS Professional boots ok whether or not i use /s but no way can i
then load the kaspersky command-line scanner avpdos32 without all
sorts of gobblegook memory error messages

Now it might seem reasonable to conclude that i have got the switches
for the kaspersky mixed up with the /s switch for NTFSDOS Professional
but no as i have double-checked the syntax.

In fact using the mcafee command-line scanner example on the download
site of NTFSDOS Professional i can not get that to work either.
In fact I can not get any of the anti-virus command-line scanners to
work with a fully licensed version of NTFSDOS Professional coupled
with the extra download update-patch from the NTFSDOS Professional
website that is supposed to rectify the problem

I have failed also with non-kaspersky command-line scanners such as
the following:-
pcscan (pcilin)
scanpm (mcafee)
NAVDX (norton)
SWEEP (Sophos)

Does anybody know of anybody who has actually acheived this feat.

Specifically i need the autoexec.bat, config.sys and the sequence of
commands to make ANY of the above-mentioned command-line anti-virus
scaanners scan an ntfs partition.

Please DO NOT assume ANY knowledge on my part.

I've had some help on this before that was not sufficiently
idiot-proof for me.

NTFSDOS Professional webpage is not much of a help.

DOS4g is something that i dont understand!

Please help if you can.

Sincerely



Patrick Sharkey <[email protected]>

 

[Yvonne]

I did a similar project last year, with F-prot. This is the
autoexec.bat on my bootable CD:

@echo off
@echo F-Prot virusscanner for NTFS volumes. Please download the latest
virus definitions from the F-Prot website and copy these to a floppy
disk first.
pause
LH MSCDEX /D:MSCD0001 /L:X
LH XMSDSK /Y W:8192
SET RAMDISK=W
SET CDROM=X
@echo copying files from cd to ramdisk ....
copy %CDROM%:\*.* %RAMDISK%:\
@echo please insert the disk with virus definitions in drive a
pause
@echo copying new virus definitions ....
%RAMDISK%:
a:\pkunzip -e -o B:\*.zip
ntfspro
@echo Ready to start F_PROT. Type F_PROT /? for available options
@echo e.g.: F_PROT X: /disinf /dumb /archive,
@echo where X: is the drive letter NTFS is mounted on (see above)

(Basic instructions came from a magazine article).