mobile anti-virus needed

In article <xn0dzjleysmpg20001 RemoveThis @news.individual.net>,
REMOVETHISbadgolferman RemoveThis @gmail.com says...
> I am looking for a decent free anti-virus program that I can put on a
> flash drive and use to scan other offline PCs. I thought F-PROT for
> DOS would work but it doesn't support NTFS systems and doesn't work
> very well from within a DOS box.
>
> Does anyone know a way I can install an AV to a flash drive and carry
> it around to other W2K/WXP computers?
>
>
I carry the Sophos command line tool SAV32CLI and its
supporting files plus the latest IDE set, zipped up in to a
single file, on mine.
Plus an easy-install version of McAfee's VirusScan that I
generated with the Installation Designer and zipped up, along
with the latest SDAT.
I keep an unzipper on there for the awkward customers, too.

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Dave Budd wrote:

> In article <xn0dzjleysmpg20001.RemoveThis@news.individual.net>,
> REMOVETHISbadgolferman.RemoveThis@gmail.com says...
> > I am looking for a decent free anti-virus program that I can put on
> > a flash drive and use to scan other offline PCs. I thought F-PROT
> > for DOS would work but it doesn't support NTFS systems and doesn't
> > work very well from within a DOS box.
> >
> > Does anyone know a way I can install an AV to a flash drive and
> > carry it around to other W2K/WXP computers?
> >
> >
> I carry the Sophos command line tool SAV32CLI and its
> supporting files plus the latest IDE set, zipped up in to a
> single file, on mine.

It appears that is part of the full program.
"SAV32CLI, the command line scanner for Windows NT, Windows 2000,
Windows XP and Windows 2003, is installed automatically as part of
Sophos Anti-Virus for Windows NT/2000/XP/2003."
How did you make this work on your removable drive?

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Dave Budd wrote:

> In article <xn0dzjleysmpg20001.DeleteThis@news.individual.net>,
> REMOVETHISbadgolferman.DeleteThis@gmail.com says...
> > I am looking for a decent free anti-virus program that I can put on
> > a flash drive and use to scan other offline PCs. I thought F-PROT
> > for DOS would work but it doesn't support NTFS systems and doesn't
> > work very well from within a DOS box.
> >
> > Does anyone know a way I can install an AV to a flash drive and
> > carry it around to other W2K/WXP computers?
> >
> >
> I carry the Sophos command line tool SAV32CLI and its
> supporting files plus the latest IDE set, zipped up in to a
> single file, on mine.

It appears that is part of the full program.
"SAV32CLI, the command line scanner for Windows NT, Windows 2000,
Windows XP and Windows 2003, is installed automatically as part of
Sophos Anti-Virus for Windows NT/2000/XP/2003."
How did you make this work on your removable drive?

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In article <xn0dzjmmdsob43b003 DeleteThis @news.individual.net>,
REMOVETHISbadgolferman DeleteThis @gmail.com says...
> Dave Budd wrote:
>
> > In article <xn0dzjleysmpg20001 DeleteThis @news.individual.net>,
> > REMOVETHISbadgolferman DeleteThis @gmail.com says...
> > > I am looking for a decent free anti-virus program that I can put on
> > > a flash drive and use to scan other offline PCs. I thought F-PROT
> > > for DOS would work but it doesn't support NTFS systems and doesn't
> > > work very well from within a DOS box.
> > >
> > > Does anyone know a way I can install an AV to a flash drive and
> > > carry it around to other W2K/WXP computers?
> > >
> > >
> > I carry the Sophos command line tool SAV32CLI and its
> > supporting files plus the latest IDE set, zipped up in to a
> > single file, on mine.
>
> It appears that is part of the full program.
> "SAV32CLI, the command line scanner for Windows NT, Windows 2000,
> Windows XP and Windows 2003, is installed automatically as part of
> Sophos Anti-Virus for Windows NT/2000/XP/2003."
> How did you make this work on your removable drive?
>
>
It does get installed along with the main product, yes, but the
delivery CD also has it in a separate folder, so I can just
pick that bit off. It's also downloadable from the Sophos
website, if you can find it, I think.
I take the .exe, the dll files and vdl etc etc it needs, plus
the latest set of IDE files, and zip them up. I unzip them onto
the target machine then CD to whichever folder I used and run
SAV32CLI c:\*.* -di -remove -f -dn
That takes anything up to 4 hours, depending how many mp3 files
there are...
I haven't yet bothered making the zip into an exe that runs
that command automatically, but I do for the VirusScan zip - I
have that run the VirusScan installer.
I like to run SAV32CLI from Safe Mode With Command Prompt and
then run VirusScan from Safe Mode (though you need Normal Mode
to install it)

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In article <xn0dzjmmdsob43b003.DeleteThis@news.individual.net>,
REMOVETHISbadgolferman.DeleteThis@gmail.com says...
> Dave Budd wrote:
>
> > In article <xn0dzjleysmpg20001.DeleteThis@news.individual.net>,
> > REMOVETHISbadgolferman.DeleteThis@gmail.com says...
> > > I am looking for a decent free anti-virus program that I can put on
> > > a flash drive and use to scan other offline PCs. I thought F-PROT
> > > for DOS would work but it doesn't support NTFS systems and doesn't
> > > work very well from within a DOS box.
> > >
> > > Does anyone know a way I can install an AV to a flash drive and
> > > carry it around to other W2K/WXP computers?
> > >
> > >
> > I carry the Sophos command line tool SAV32CLI and its
> > supporting files plus the latest IDE set, zipped up in to a
> > single file, on mine.
>
> It appears that is part of the full program.
> "SAV32CLI, the command line scanner for Windows NT, Windows 2000,
> Windows XP and Windows 2003, is installed automatically as part of
> Sophos Anti-Virus for Windows NT/2000/XP/2003."
> How did you make this work on your removable drive?
>
>
It does get installed along with the main product, yes, but the
delivery CD also has it in a separate folder, so I can just
pick that bit off. It's also downloadable from the Sophos
website, if you can find it, I think.
I take the .exe, the dll files and vdl etc etc it needs, plus
the latest set of IDE files, and zip them up. I unzip them onto
the target machine then CD to whichever folder I used and run
SAV32CLI c:\*.* -di -remove -f -dn
That takes anything up to 4 hours, depending how many mp3 files
there are...
I haven't yet bothered making the zip into an exe that runs
that command automatically, but I do for the VirusScan zip - I
have that run the VirusScan installer.
I like to run SAV32CLI from Safe Mode With Command Prompt and
then run VirusScan from Safe Mode (though you need Normal Mode
to install it)

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From: "Dave Budd" <ddotbudd.DeleteThis@man.ac.uk>

| In article <xn0dzjmmdsob43b003.DeleteThis@news.individual.net>,
| REMOVETHISbadgolferman.DeleteThis@gmail.com says...
>> Dave Budd wrote:
>>
>>> In article <xn0dzjleysmpg20001.DeleteThis@news.individual.net>,
>>> REMOVETHISbadgolferman.DeleteThis@gmail.com says...
>>>> I am looking for a decent free anti-virus program that I can put on
>>>> a flash drive and use to scan other offline PCs. I thought F-PROT
>>>> for DOS would work but it doesn't support NTFS systems and doesn't
>>>> work very well from within a DOS box.
>>>>
>>>> Does anyone know a way I can install an AV to a flash drive and
>>>> carry it around to other W2K/WXP computers?
>>>>
>>> I carry the Sophos command line tool SAV32CLI and its
>>> supporting files plus the latest IDE set, zipped up in to a
>>> single file, on mine.
>>
>> It appears that is part of the full program.
>> "SAV32CLI, the command line scanner for Windows NT, Windows 2000,
>> Windows XP and Windows 2003, is installed automatically as part of
>> Sophos Anti-Virus for Windows NT/2000/XP/2003."
>> How did you make this work on your removable drive?
>>
| It does get installed along with the main product, yes, but the
| delivery CD also has it in a separate folder, so I can just
| pick that bit off. It's also downloadable from the Sophos
| website, if you can find it, I think.
| I take the .exe, the dll files and vdl etc etc it needs, plus
| the latest set of IDE files, and zip them up. I unzip them onto
| the target machine then CD to whichever folder I used and run
| SAV32CLI c:\*.* -di -remove -f -dn
| That takes anything up to 4 hours, depending how many mp3 files
| there are...
| I haven't yet bothered making the zip into an exe that runs
| that command automatically, but I do for the VirusScan zip - I
| have that run the VirusScan installer.
| I like to run SAV32CLI from Safe Mode With Command Prompt and
| then run VirusScan from Safe Mode (though you need Normal Mode
| to install it)
|
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Based upon what you have written, I am suprised you have not mentioned the McAfee Command
Line Scanner.

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