DOS and Rescue thread?

Where did the thread go to the link to get the program to get the now two needed (rather than one) floppies created for Rescue using NOD DOS? Rodzilla posted it last night. I can't remember the website to go to.

Never mind. I found the web site to get the software.

 

Where is that thread? I was planning to come back and look at Rod's link and didn't.

 

I thought I had sent the message to Randy, but that was a different one that Rod posted last night. So, I can't reproduce Rod's message, but here's the link:

http://www.avdisk.org/pages/about.html

 

Yep ... I killed it to pre-empt future problems. I wasn't thinking clearly when I wrote the post. I use 98SE startup disks for booting into DOS on XP (FT32) and I can do virrtually anything I like, including run NOD32 for DOS, but it seems that AVDisk doesn't work with XP alone ... I imagine because because XP is missing some of the required DOS commands.

It will work OK with 95/98.

I've emailed Deniz about it. Dunno if there is anything he can do to make it work with XP.

http://www.avdisk.org is the place to fing out more.

 

Aloha Meleliga!

Manuia Kerisimasi ma le Tausaga Fou!

rod

 

>Manuia Kerisimasi ma le Tausaga Fou

Mahalo for the Samoan holiday greetings!
Mele Kalikimaka! Hauloi Makahiki hou.

Christmas blessings,
Meleleliga

 

You need PKZip to run AVDisk -- PKZip is not freeware.

 

> You need PKZip to run AVDisk -- PKZip is not freeware.

UGH! And PKZIP 2.50 for DOS is $47.00!! That is more than the cost of NOD32! Like many users, I have WinZip and I certainly would not fork out money for another utility of this nature.

 

PKZip 2.04g is shareware. Lots of sites still have it, including http://www.hwcn.org/pda/pc/offline/pkz204g.exe

 

The AVdisk program only seems to work with Win95/98. It also seems strange that they want to use PKZip to create the disks, supposedly since it can span diskettes. There are many compression programs that can also do this and are free. It seems silly to have to pay more for PKZip than i do for the more modern compression programs in order to create a free rescue disk. Hopefully version 2 of NOD will address this situation and create diskettes easily as required. It would also be nice if the instructions for carrying this out are an improvement on the current NOD manual.

 

>PKZip 2.04g is shareware. Lots of sites still have it, including http://www.hwcn.org/pda/pc/offline/pkz204g.exe

OK. I went and got it. Then Script Sentry gave me a hard time on reading the word documents.

That looks extremely complicated. I don't know any DOS and only know how to use WinZip in its wizard form where everything is done automatically. This is the very sort of thing that I sure hope is addressed and fixed in version 2. Anyone, no matter their level of knowledge of DOS, etc. should be able to create rescue disks in a few moments very simply. You can do this with just about every other av program out there (for W95/9. Should be able to do it with NOD. NOD is definitely the best scanner, but it has to, at the same time, be one of the worst as far as ease of user interface and the manual sucks! Sorry to be so blunt, but it is true!

I have a friend who will soon be getting her first computer. She asked me about av programs and I can't, in good conscience, recommend NOD32 because she would find it way too difficult to use and the manual isn't much help. I find this frustrating and I hope this all changes with the new version.

 

Come now Mele20, Nod32 is one of the most simple and logical programs to use, you shouldn't need the manuel. Set it up for her, and walk her through what you are doing.

It is a set and forget program, one of the best if not the very best I have ever come across

Cheers

 

Sorry, but NAV is FAR more simple to set up!! So is every other antivirus I have tried. This is by far the most difficult. All the others use wizards and there is no/minor user configuration needed. That is what is called simple. NOD32 is user unfriendly for set up. It can't even automatically set up email scanning for Mozilla mail and every other antivirus I've tried can. For use, it is ok , but it is still user unfriendly compared to others I've tried. Who wants three icons in their sys tray? And who wants to have to go into programs and call up NOD when you want to scan ...you should be able to do that and check email scanning everything from one window in the systray. Who wants error messages that are irrelevant, but that worry you because no other antivirus gives them so you think they may be important? Who wants a website that can't be bothered to give information on the viruses that it detects so that the user has to go Symantec or some other rival for the information? Recently, there was a hot new worm everyone was talking about and ONLY NOD never had any information on their website about it! Everyone else had info immediately. I had to go to rival sites to read about it. NAV has only one thing wrong with it, but it is huge and that is that Symantec recently farmed out tech support to India and it is horrible.

Plus, I sure can't figure out how to make Rescue disks for NOD! I had no problem at all with NAV, McAfee, Kaspersky, etc. Rescue is the heart of antivirus and I have none since I got NOD32. That is a HUGE minus in my opinion. To balance that, NOD has the best scanner. No question about that, but in every other way it leaves a lot to be desired. As for its small footprint, it uses exactly the same amount of resources that NAV 2003 uses.

It seems to me that NOD (in its present form) is the best choice for those who engage in risky internet behaviors, but is not the best choice for conservative users. I'm hoping that the new version will change all that.

As for my friend, I'm hoping the new NOD will have a clean enough interface and be simple enough to install and configure that I can recommend it. If she buys a computer before then though, I will recommend NAV because it so easy to set up and use and I can very easily troubleshoot NAV for her...I still do it for a lot of people.

 

Hey Mele,

although NOD has many good parameters, there are still some things to improve. It should be easy to use for everyone. I bet you will like the new version more.

NOD32 for DOS together with all virus definitions updates database used to fit to one diskette - now is the database a bit bigger - but it will be changed to suit the users better.

Thanks for the points

rgds,

jan

 

I give up -- this is way too confusing to mess with. I got PKzip and tried to read the "readme file." It says "readme.doc" but it's not an MSWord document; you have to open in it Notepad.

I can't figure out how to use "AVDisk."

I don't have time to learn how to use either program, for the next few days.

 

>It says "readme.doc" but it's not an MSWord document; you have to open in it Notepad.

That's odd because I could read it (but it didn't have any useful information to helpme set this up...you didn't miss anything!) in Word. Script Sentry gave me a hard time and complained and complained because it said "the file you have selectd is not an OLE document". Once I got the warning out of the way, I could read in in Word. What version of Word do you have? Maybe that is the problem. I have Word 97.

 

Word 2000 (I think). I got the OLE warning also. I'll look at all this again later, too much to worry about for the next few days (people are coming over tomorrow).

 

Hi,

as Paul has already mentioned, the new beta version (already
available for download on the Slovak website) has many new
features implemented and the former ones improved.

As regards the second question, you can make a bootable
diskette and another one containing the DOS version of NOD32.
Unfortunately this one must be formatted on a higher capacity
using a special utility as the size of NOD32 slightly exceeds its
volume. We will take a further look into this issue so it would be
easier for users to make rescue diskettes.