anti-virus scan from floppy?

[ghitch75]

does anyone know of a program that will fit on a floppy to run a scan no a system?....i'v looked high and low and can't find anything.......thanks

[HAL9000]

If I remember correctly, F-Prot does.

[Cricket]

Hi ghitch75,

Grisoft's AVG antivirus (Windows based) is able to create a emergency DOS boot floppy that can scan a system for viruses. But you'll need 2 floppies...1 for the virus scanner and 1 for the definition files. I think the same goes for FProt...the scanner itself fits on 1 floppy but the definition files go on another floppy.

:) Cricket

[ghitch75]

i run avg 6.0 and it just rescuse my system i'm wanting this to run on a friends system i guess a should have been clearer in the post and i can't find a download for a floppy at the F-prot site?

[Redo40]

I use F-Prot for Dos, setting up floppy (http://www.f-prot.com/support/06.html) , use that same link and click on "Download" to download it.

[Cricket]

Originally posted by ghitch75
i run avg 6.0 and it just rescuse my system i'm wanting this to run on a friends system i guess a should have been clearer in the post and i can't find a download for a floppy at the F-prot site? There is no specific download for floppy disk, just download the FProt for DOS. Once it's downloaded, unzip it and then you have to manually make your own FProt floppy disk.

Get a floppy and format it and then choose the option to put the system files on it, that will make it bootable. Then you have to look through the FProt folder you put FProt in and look for the FProt executable and put it on the bootable floppy disk. Put the other files on another floppy disk (doesn't have to be bootable). Boot to the FProt bootable disk and execute FProt. When asked, put the other floppy disk in the floppy drive so FProt can get the virus definitions.

edit: Hey, nice link Redo40...I never saw those instructions before. Good to know.

:) Crickte

[ghitch75]

thanks guys i got !!!.....it has a 174 infected files!!!!!.....thanks for all your help

[Cricket]

Originally posted by ghitch75
thanks guys i got !!!.....it has a 174 infected files!!!!!.....thanks for all your help Whoa! Do you use Kazaa?

:) Cricket

[Tuf]

It's probably one virus that has infected 174 different files with the same file extentionl.

[ghitch75]

yes it was 2 virus's that infected 174 files.....it wasn't on mine it was on a friends....he hadn't formated it for 2 years so i wiped it and started from scratch and it runs great....thanks for all your help!!!