mobile anti-virus needed

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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Dave

In article <CrEXd.60390$uc.21005@trnddc03>,
DLipman~nospam~@Verizon.Net says...

>
> Based upon what you have written, I am suprised you have not mentioned the McAfee Command
> Line Scanner.

Well, if I'm going to do 2 scans, I like to use separate
products, and this month I prefer McAfee for the Safe Mode
level scan so I use Sophos for the SM+CP scan.
Next month I may do it the other way round: and I keep meaning
to have a look at the Trend one you keep posting links for. Is
it a usable-for-a-trial-period-and-then-you-can't-install-it-
again one, or totally free? There was a guy from Trend at a
recent seminar I went to and he certainly talked the talk -
I'll be looking closely at their stuff when next licence
renewal comes around.

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