[arachne] Re: DOS antivirus (was Re: EFFECTIVE UNRAR SOFTWARE NEEDED)

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On Wed, 27 May 2009 09:42:17 -0400, Samuel W. Heywood wrote:

> On Tue, 2009-05-26 at 20:48 -0500, Glenn McCorkle wrote:
>> Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club!

>> kaspersky has an antivirus rescue CD that boots DOS from the CD

>> http://www.techmixer.com/kaspersky-rescue-disk-load-kaspersky-antivirus-2009-u

>> Kaspersky Rescue Disk, a bootable DOS Based Kaspersky Antivirus to
>> perform virus scanning and remove viruses on Windows without booting
>> the operating system first.

> <snip>

> Glenn, if you had downloaded and tried out that one you would have
> recognized that it is not DOS-based.

> That one is a linux live CD which includes the linux program "Kapersky
> Antivirus"

> It boots a linux operating system from the CD and it runs in a ram
> drive.

> It is designed to scan only one's DOS and/or Windoze partition(s) for
> viruses and malware.

> I downloaded the iso file and I burned the live CD and I tried it out on
> my dual boot WinXP and Ubuntu linux machine after booting to the CD.

Sooooo.... for some strange reason those folks are
calling the Linux CLI 'DOS based'.

Do they not know what DOS is ????


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