F-Prot for Dos on XP

kurt wismer <kurtw DeleteThis @sympatico.ca> wrote:

>have you tried downloading f-prot for windows and using fpcmd? its a
>commandline app that handles xp and ntfs a lot better than fprot for dos...

No, but I'll have a look, thanks.

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"Zvi Netiv" <zvi.DeleteThis@invircible.com> wrote in message news:b6egmv4mmq0o8fit4kt45m7dgvp0ivgdlr@4ax.com...

> PE Builder is a nice approach for maintenance personnel, but is impractical to
> common users when they need disinfecting occasionally, and in a scramble. There
> is no replacement to DOS scanners with an emergency on your hands.

Heh he ~ it is impractical to expect most common users to
be able to use DOS.

It would seem that a PE disk, created immediately after the
installation of the OS (so that it would be 100% compatible
with that "flavor" of NTFS) would be just the thing for this;
just the minimum required for the filesystem's read and write
support, and the ability to run a scan from an OS that needs
run no code from the possibly corrupted harddrive. There
would be no need for network support because if you were
in deep enough "doo doo" to need to clean in this way, you
probably wouldn't want to be networked while disinfecting.