Re: Modern antivirus for NT3.51?

From: David H. Lipman (DLipman~nospam~_at_Verizon.Net)
Date: 08/29/05 

Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2005 19:15:46 -0400

From: "Auric__" <not.my.real@email.address>

|
| That's why I'm seeking a good antivirus. (I'm also looking for a working
| firewall, but that's OT here, right?)
|
| If the NT3 machine *did* get infected with a worm, wouldn't my Win2k
| machine's antivirus (AVG free) or firewall (Outpost free) tell me
| something's not kosher?
|
| Finally... do DOS scanners work okay under NT machines, or is the
| environment too different?
| --
| auric dot auric at gmail dot com
| *****
| Your clothes, give them to me, now.

Well FireWall software (or a hardware device) is not specialized here, but, this is a Virus
and Security News Group so it is not totally Off Topic.

AV software istalled ON PC A will not flag an infection on PC B. However, it will reduce
the risk of one PC spreading a virus from a priotected PC to a non-protected PC.

DOS scanners are limited to 8.3 naming conventions and will be limited on the folder depth.
In addition, they can't read NTFS partitions without the use of a third party software such
as NTFS4DOS.

Additionally, they would be "On Demand" scanners and can find and clean only after the fact.
Not protect against infection.

You can try my Multi AV scanner tool which provided "On Demand" scanning for Trend Micro's
Sysclean utility and the McAfee and Sophos Command Line Scanners. However, they will
require TCP/IP be loaded on the NT v3.51 platform and use a utility called WGET.EXE (for
downloading the signatures, scanners and engine files for the respective AV scanners) which
may have a dependency that will not be met on NT v3.51.

If you try it, I would CERTAINLY be very interested in your findings and tresults in using
the tool under that OS and would appreciate the feedback.

Download MULTI_AV.EXE from the URL --
http://www.ik-cs.com/programs/virtools/Multi_AV.exe

It is a self-extracting ZIP file that contains the Kixtart Script Interpreter {
http://kixtart.org Kixtart is CareWare } three batch files, five Kixtart scripts, one Link
(.LNK) file, a PDF instruction file and two utilities; UNZIP.EXE and WGET.EXE. It will
simplify the process of using; Sophos, Trend and McAfee Anti Virus Command Line Scanners to
remove viruses, Trojans and various other malware.

C:\AV-CLS\StartMenu.BAT -- { or Double-click on 'Start Menu' in C:\AV-CLS}
This will bring up the initial menu of choices and should be executed in Normal Mode. This
way all the components can be downloaded from each AV vendor’s web site.
The choices are; Sophos, Trend, McAfee, Exit the menu and Reboot the PC.

You can choose to go to each menu item and just download the needed files or you can
download the files and perform a scan in Normal Mode. Once you have downloaded the files
needed for each scanner you want to use, you should reboot the PC into Safe Mode [F8 key
during boot] and re-run the menu again and choose which scanner you want to run in Safe
Mode. It is suggested to run the scanners in both Safe Mode and Normal Mode.

When the menu is displayed hitting 'H' or 'h' will bring up a more comprehensive PDF help
file.

To use this utility, perform the following...
Execute; Multi_AV.exe { Note: You must use the default folder C:\AV-CLS }
Choose; Unzip
Choose; Close

Execute; C:\AV-CLS\StartMenu.BAT
{ or Double-click on 'Start Menu' in C:\AV-CLS }

NOTE: You may have to disable your software FireWall or allow WGET.EXE to go through your
FireWall to allow it to download the needed AV vendor related files.

* * * Please report back your results * * * 

-- 
Dave
http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
http://www.ik-cs.com/got-a-virus.htm

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