dos scanner

[maddawgz]

is there a free standing dos virus scanner??? was curious thanks MD

[bigc73542]

F-prot has one available on their web site. ( free )

[dan_maran]

McAfee has a fairly good one also at NAI. http://vil.nai.com/vil/virus-4d.asp

[no13]

NOD32 also has one.

Norton also had something similar... I forget.

[Grumble]

F-Secure Anti-Virus for DOS is free. Has anyone used it?

http://www.f-secure.com/download-purchase/tools.shtml

[no13]

The question with all these is... do they scan properly in NTFS [long file names and all]

[no13]

-{ Quote: "F-Secure Anti-Virus for DOS is free. Has anyone used it?

http://www.f-secure.com/download-purchase/tools.shtml" }-
looks like an old version of f-prot.
ftp://ftp.f-secure.com/anti-virus/free/

[Firecat]

Here, this link may help you :)

http://antivirus.about.com/od/downloadsdos/

It lists all known free DOS scanners :)

[Blackcat]

-{ Quote: "The question with all these is... do they scan properly in NTFS [long file names and all]" }-
Yes, this is critical on NT systems.

F-Prot for DOS will scan all directories on an NTFS drive that was mounted with an appropriate driver, when run under Windows 9x / Me. However, it will miss directories when run under W2K or XP, regardless of whether the file system is FAT-32 or NTFS!

In fact Frisk recommends not using F-Prot for DOS under Windows XP. You should use the scanner FPCMD.EXE which is included with the commercial F-Prot for Windows.

Whether the other DOS scanners have the same problem with NT systems I do not know.

[no13]

Is it legal to distribute FPCMD.exe? I don't suppose so, is it?

[Blackcat]

-{ Quote: " Is it legal to distribute FPCMD.exe? I don't suppose so, is it?" }-
No.

I was not advocating transferring it across to the normal free DOS scanner. Just that you would have to purchase the F-Prot for Windows version for long term use.