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 Message 317 
 Ben Ritchey to Flavio Bessa 
 Re: Anti-virus for DOS 
 07 Jul 16 21:08:22 
 
* An ongoing debate between Flavio Bessa and All rages on ...

 FB> Any recommendations for anti-virus software that would run on DOS?

The only two viable solutions that I know of are both unsupported, obsolete
and 
only accept old, expired Signature data files: F-Prot A/V and McAfee ScanPM, 
both of which can be found on the net for download, including my site.

I scan some abandoned, old packages with ScanPM from Mcafee using an old set
of 
signatures, but they would only have older infections anyway, if anything. 
ScanPM is available from my web site at:

  http://cmech.dynip.com/filebase.bbs/virus/eng-4400.zip

and F-Prot (same folder) as fp-316f.zip, as well as obsolete versions of other 
packages that may or may not still work, just have to try. {chuckle}

There are some current, updated & bootable A/V solutions that will scan FAT
and 
NTFS drives, but I'm not familiar with them enough to recommend anything. :)

As always, common sense on what you download and install is the best policy 
IMHO :)

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