Re: Modern antivirus for NT3.51?
From: Auric__ (not.my.real_at_email.address)
Date: 08/29/05
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Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 13:02:26 -0700
On Sun, 28 Aug 2005 19:15:46 -0400, David H. Lipman wrote:
>From: "Auric__" <not.my.real@email.address>
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>|
>| 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.
I know; I meant, if NT3 is infect with a worm, the situation might be a
bit like this:
worm: "w00t! I have infect0rzed a b0xen! l33t! Time to find anothor
b0xen to infect!"
outpost on Win2k: "Uh oh, weird connection attempts from NT3 - let's
block 'em, eh?"
[or]
AVG on Win2k: "Uh oh, worm trying to infect my host - deny, deny, deny."
>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.
But I'm talking about running them from a cmd box under NT.
>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 the requirement is Winsock2 then it is *definitely* not met. OTOH, if
that's the only problem, will it still work without automatic updating?
Also, does it work with one (or two) of those scanners *not* installed?
(Meaning: scanner A not available - does it die, or move on to scanner
B?)
>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.
Will do.
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