Question about an AntiVirus Program

[Sam]

During one of my visits to a newsgroup, there was a discussion about an
antivirus program that you could put on a CD or floppies and then
periodically download the definitions and scan a computer if need be(similar
to what Symantec use to have for NAV). The antivirus name is Vexira and is
located on the Central Command web site
(www.centralcommand.com/rescue_disk1003a7.html). If anyone is familiar with
this program and how reliable it may be, would very much appreciate any
comments both positive and negative. Thanks, Sam.

P.S. I have a Dell Dimension 8200 computer with windows XP Pro and NAV 2003.
The reason I am interested in the above program is that last week, my
neighbors computer would not bootup. We suspect the computer had various
virus and worms since one of his teenagers surfs the internet without
caution and the MS security updates on the computer are very lacking. Maybe
it would not have made any difference but I would liked to have scanned his
computer with an antivirus program with current definitions.

 

[Sam]

Lem, thanks very much for your reply and the information about the floppy
drive support. Learn something new every day!!!

Unfortunately NAV 2003 does not have the "Emergency Disk" feature available
( I think it was a mistake by Symantec to drop this feature). I should have
mentioned that my neighbor also has a Dell Dimension 8200 with windows XP
Pro installed. Sam

 

[Pilli]

In an article Sam carefully scribbled...

Lem, thanks very much for your reply and the information about the floppy
drive support. Learn something new every day!!!

Unfortunately NAV 2003 does not have the "Emergency Disk" feature available
( I think it was a mistake by Symantec to drop this feature). I should have
mentioned that my neighbor also has a Dell Dimension 8200 with windows XP
Pro installed. Sam

The NAV CD is bootable so you probably do not need an emergency floppy

 

[NoNoBadDog!]

This solution does not offer real time scanning. By only scanning when it
is convenient for you, you will have already been infected and your data
compromised. You need to install an antivirus program that will continually
monitor for suspicious activity. Norton is among the best, but AVG is free
and works moderately well. If you don't install one, you are asking for
problems, and by the time you discover you are infected, your data has been
compromised.

You should also be running a firewall (and not the weak one that MS provides
with Windows XP). www.zonelabs.com offers one of the easiest to use and
best ones around, the FREE ZoneAlarm.

Bobby

 

[Incognitus]

Norton still has the rescue disk feature but it is disabled in Windows
XP (and 2000) since NTFS disks cannot use it. Why they do not make it
available for Windows XP if your disk is formatted FAT-32 I do not
know.

For FAT you can use F-prot for Dos.
http://www.f-prot.com/download/home_user/

Also get the latest definition while there and unzip all three to a empty
folder, then use 4 floppies.

Copy to:
Floppy 1)
f-prot.exe
english.txo
macro.def

Floppy 2)
Sign.def

Floppy 3)
sign2.def

Put a floppy (# 4) into the A: drive, open explorer, right click the drive
and choose format, choose create a MS-Dos startup disk.

Then you can use the startup disk to boot to Dos A:>
Then put the disk in that contains f-prot.exe and type f-prot /loaddef and
hit enter.
Follow directions.

I wouldn't go to work on a computer without f-prot, of course it won't work
NTFS.