Re: Modern antivirus for NT3.51?
From: David H. Lipman (DLipman~nospam~_at_Verizon.Net)
Date: 08/28/05
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Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2005 17:24:49 -0400
From: "Auric__" <not.my.real@email.address>
| On Sun, 28 Aug 2005 10:16:00 -0400, David H. Lipman wrote:
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>> From: "Auric__" <not.my.real@email.address>
>>
>|> I'm setting up an NT 3.51 system (no, really) and I'm looking for a
>|> fairly recent antivirus that'll work on it. (I've got F-prot DOS and F-
>|> secure DOS but I'm hoping for something Windows-based.) Any suggestions?
>|>
>|> Here's what I've tried so far:
>>
>> Forget about it !
>>
>> NY v5.51 is dead and buried and it successor NT v4 is also dead.
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| Yes, I know. I don't use most modern OS's.
|
>> There are NO modern AV
>> applications that will work under NT v5.51 as their requirements are not met by this OS.
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| Thank you. That's all I needed to know.
|
>> There is no reason to use this OS and it will only leave you open to all sorts of
>> exploitations since there are no security patches for this OS.
|
| My reasons are ultimately unimportant, yes? And I'm aware of the
| security considerations.
|
>> If you are setting up such an archaic OS, then I suggest standing it up w/o any form of
>> Internet access.
|
| I'll consider that, but even if I don't do TCP/IP, it will still be on
| the network via NetBIOS, and my other machines most definitely do have
| Internet access.
| --
| auric dot auric at gmail dot com
| *****
| ...the thought hadn't so much crossed my mind as ran screaming in
| incoherent terror over it.
First.. My apologies for typing... NY v5.51 and NT v5.51 when it should have been "NT
v3.51."
At least you understood ;-)
The only way to communicate NetBIOS are the following...
NetBIOS over IPX/SPX
NetBIOS over TCP/IP
NetBEUI
If the other PCs do have Internet access then the LAN can still share Internet worms. Even
if the ones with Internet access used TCP/IP and NetBEUI or TCP/IP and NetBIOS over IPX/SPX
(TCP/IP for Internet and NetBEUI or NetBIOS over IPX for MS Networking) you still chance
Internet worms infecting the NT v3.51 platform via NT shares (both created and
administrative). Such worms as BugBear and SDBot would still have a field day if the NT
v3.51 platform was not sufficiently hardened.
-- Dave http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html http://www.ik-cs.com/got-a-virus.htm
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