[arachne] Re: EFFECTIVE UNRAR SOFTWARE NEEDED

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L.D.,
 Even if he gets malware that won't have an effect on his
system he still needs to get rid of it. If his system uses
email, networking, IM or such, he can still infect others
if his computer is harboring virii. The hospital my sister
used to work at, got infected sometime back and caused
serious concern. A Typhoid Mary approach to the situation
is unethical at best. He also needs a program that can get
uptodate definitions. On one of my email accounts, I've
been getting alot of emails with JPEGs and PNGs with
trojan downloaders embedded in them. They won't effect my
system, but I find them and dispose of them forthwith to
prevent them from possibly inadvertantly getting to
someone else. For now, like you said, he just needs to
format, but he needs a long term solution.
Rob

On Tue, 26 May 2009, L.D. Best wrote:


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I just acquired a Windows virus attack on some used Windows laptops I am trying to turn into DOS laptops. I am desparately in need of some strong DOS antivirus to put into the laptops to kill the virus. But I have yet to be able to both find and download DOS antivirus that will do the job.
If these are ntsf formatted drives, no DOS program will even find files ... let alone remove viruses.
FPROT, which I would prefer because of its simplicity, has abandoned DOS, and the Russian antivirus web sites all have such confused organization that I cannot locate DOS ANTIVIRUS on them to download, although I have downloaded some useless files from some of them. Does anyone have a good solution. I certainlay do not mind paying for the software if I can get it. 

If you are trying to turn these systems into DOS, it couldn't be simpler:
 1. Set CMOS to boot from CD?? drive?? (no floppy drives, I'll wager);
2. Set up a CD to be self-booting (DOS, of course) and drop in format.com onto that CD; 
 3. Boot, format the drive using DOS, and you're good to go.
As for getting f-prot for once you have DOS systems set up ... I'm sure I'm not the only one who has the last DOS issue and upgrades. (It now fits on 4 or 5?? 1.44FDs so I don't know if that would help since you don't have a FDD; my DOS system is still down, maybe forever. But someone else should be able to provide you with DOS F-Prot with the final sig and def files ... I imagine at least 2 or 3 people on this list.
In all actuality, the most likely way to get a virus on a DOS machine these days is to stick in infected floppy into your computer. Since the laptops probably don't have FDDs, you really have little to worry about: AFAIK, none of the currently active viruses can even infect a dos system. 

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Someone on the list may be able to give you one of those files that is a CD image (can't remember the type, but they'll know) and you could use that image to burn your bootable CD for DOS. (TRYIN to set up a self-booting DOS disk using 'doze warez is about damn near impossible.) 

Don't give up the ship ... just reverse that. <G>

l.d.
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