I concur about the commercial virus scanners. I repaired someones XP system yesterday. Commercial scanners detected 2 rootkits, 6 viruses and 2 trojans. I ran ClamWin and it missed all of these. I like ClamAV because of its low overhead. F-Prot would still work on older viruses floating around out there and since its non-resident its not a bad secondary scanner.
If its a dual boot machine, you can scan the DOS partition with a Windows, Linux or BSD virus scanning utility from within the other operating system. If it only runs DOS but has enough memory, you can try scanning with a live Linux security CD (check distrowatch.com). --- On Wed, 12/3/08, Michael Reichenbach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Michael Reichenbach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] Updated Antivirus for dos > To: [email protected] > Date: Wednesday, December 3, 2008, 3:11 PM > Eric Auer schrieb: > > Hi! > > > >> Antivirus for DOS is good like Antivirus for *any > barely used OS*, > >> because the barely used OS isn't target for > viruses. > > > > True, although you get the same effectivity by booting > > a known-clean readonly CD/DVD with any OS at all for > > your antivirus work :-). > > Yes, because no virus can be in RAM. (besides BIOS viruses > if this isn't > a myth) > > Unknown (or self made ;)) operating systems have also still > a small > advantage over the random operating system: while scanning > (reading > files from harddisk) there can be no exploits attacking the > scan engine > or the disk access driver. Ok, that's pretty paranoid > thought because > such techniques are not yet seen in the wild. > > > I think Avira free-av.de has a DOS boot disk > > with free-for-private-use NTFS drivers somewhere, too. > > http://www.unet.univie.ac.at/~a0503736/php/drdoswiki/index.php?n=Main.NTFS > > > Did you already try ClamAV for DOS? > > I tested ClamAV for Windows. It's a nice project, worth > to observe, no > damage if using it. But for serious scanning with good > results the > commercial vendors are still much better. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move > Developer's challenge > Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK > & win great prizes > Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event > anywhere in the world > http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
