> On Thu, 17 Feb 2000 01:39:15 -0500, Mark David Roth wrote:
> Are there any CMOS AV programs? Where could I get them?
gregy replied:
-Mark.....at bootup, you get the screen with AMI BIOS....AWARD Bios...
-Pheonix Bios.....etc.....and right below that you see your memory
-test utility counting over until it checks your memory.....this is
-all part of your POST (Power ON System Test, or Power ON Self Test).
-....right below that is a line that reads "hit (DEL) to run Setup"
-or something like that.....you do what it says, and you are put into
-the opening screen of your CMOS Setup utility....it is usually a
-!!WARNING!! screen....you <ENTER> to go to the next screen, which
-should be a menu of the various CMOS Setup sections...you move the
-highlignted selector bar up and down with the arrow keys, and then
-<ENTER> to select the one that you want to het into......
-NOTE...!!!!...the WARNING screen wasn't just there for fun, or a joke...
-you need to LOOK through this thing several times, BEFORE you make any
-changes....get familiar with it before tweaking.....AND....READ THE
-SCREENS.....!!!..BEFORE...!!! you make a move on that screen....pay
-attention to what is down on the bottom, etc...and ....do not panic...
-NEVER...make a move without STOP, READ, PONDER....your machine will
-not fly away while you use your head...
-...then...probably on the first page or "Advanced CMOS Setup" page,
-you will find the toggle for anti-virus ON/OFF....think about it a
-while before you activate it....<g g g>
I have AMI BIOS 4/30/1989. I only have one page for setup. There is
no warning screen. There is no Advanced CMOS Setup. There is no toggle
for anti-virus. All I can do is select what drives I have installed and
set a RAM memory option. I can also select CMOS Diagnostics at boot up
which can perform various disk utilities can run tests on the disks,
monitor and the COM ports.
So far the best anti-virus program I have is McAfee's SCAN86. I just
downloaded, installed and tried to run F-PROT. IU got a fayal error that
wouldmn't let it run. The message was a new one to me. DOS Causeway
Error 11. F-PROT had a document PROBLEMS.TXT that explained that some
laptops would have problems because they use some sort of causeway
programing or something like that. I also downloaded, installed and
tried to run Integrity Master v4.21. It locked on me the second time
I ran it. It couldn't rewrite the file that saved the CMOS settings.
I downloaded quite a few others that I haven't tried out yet.
I installed AntiViral Toolkit Pro v3.0 build 126 on a clean bootable
flopppy. It wouldn't run because it asked for a second floppy that I
didn't have. So I trioed installing it on my hard drive. It still
wouldn't run. I got an error message SET file not found. I couldn't
find anything in the documents that came with it about either problem.
