On Fri, 18 Feb 2000 07:42:53 -0500, Mark David Roth wrote:
> 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
Mark......all my CMOS Bios' are later than 1990....they all have
an Anti-virus toggle in the Setup utility....
Since you CMOS Bios does not include it....the only recourse is for
you to do what you are doing.....run some kind of loadable anti-virus
....and check every executable you download/install before you run
them.....
The CMOS Bios anti-virus only keeps a watch on my Master Boot Record
and other crucial hardware-level HDD areas....it will not detect a
virus infecting only executables, that doesn't try to mess with the
HDD structure itself....I use it as a bare minimum running-block
and I regularly run my other, loadable, AV utilities....
DOS gives us some additional protection from the esoteric bugs now
running in macros, email, etc...since our Arachnes will not just
blindly go ahead an do something without us first telling it to
...and, or course, I don't run many Win or even OS/2 applications
which can be infected and launched into malicious activities..
.......gregy
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