By coincidence, I have just finished dealing with a similar problem. I needed some reliable method of accessing web-mail, but do not have time to mess with Linux at the moment. I decided to test out Opera because I know I can eventually set it up in Linux.
I have a copy of MS-BORG VIRUS 3.1, which my brother picked up at a thrift store for two dollars. However, VIRUS 3.1 doesn't seem to like my copy of Freedos, which I have only recently installed. As I don't want this thing infecting my system, I decided to boot from a floppy and install from there. This went ok, with one small glitch: VIRUS 3.1 couldn't figure out what to do with the config and autoexec after making changes and stored them as .WIN files in its root directory. No problem, just rename to .bat and .sys and move files to floppy. It should be possible to do something similar with VIRUS 95 and probably VIRUS 98 as well. I see tips all over the internet for extracting DOS from VIRUS 95: install, make a crash disk, and you then have MS-BORG DOS 7 isolated on your floppy. I assume it is then possible to boot from this floppy and run VIRUS 95 from any secondary drive, as long as you have the Windows directory in your path or batch file. I haven't seen any similar discussion about VIRUS 98. If you boot from a floppy, run your installation from a secondary drive, and don't let VIRUS anywhere near your master boot record, it should be possible to keep it isolated from the rest of your machine. I did all this because I couldn't figure out how to get arachne to access yahoo's webmail. Joan Cameron On Tue, 9 Apr 2002, L.D. Best wrote: > I haven't been on the list lately because it's all been Linux and I'm > still in the process of figuring out how I'll protect my Win98SE > machine once I get it up on line. I need semi-reliable full time web > access before I start setting up a multi-OS system. > > l.d. > -- Arachne V1.70;rev.3, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/ >
