Re: Virus scanning apps that can be started from the DOS prompt?

Dave {ð¿ð} wrote:
"kurt wismer" <kurtw@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:f6kh3l$pga$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Dave {ð¿ð} wrote:
"phuile" <phuile@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:1183625830.893216.163670@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
This question is related to my other post re: virus scanning apps. Is
there a free virus scanning apps that I can be run from a DOS prompt?

F-Prot.
is not free (one of the OP's requirements) unless you're talking about f-prot for dos, which is unsuitable for scanning windows machines (it will miss a large number of files)...

Did I have to spell out what version of F-Prot I was referring to?

yes, as a matter of fact... there are 2 possible f-prot tools that run at the command prompt... f-prot for dos which is free but doesn't handle windows pc's properly and fpcmd (part of f-prot for windows) which isn't free but does handle windows pc's properly...

Surely the OP would have spotted the free DOS version if and when he visited the F-Prot website:- http://www.f-prot.com/products/home_use/dos/

and he would have wound up with a tool that the vendor themselves warn against using on windows boxes...

I'm not sure how good it is or what files it does or does not scan, but it is free and works from the DOS prompt on PCs with Windows OS, which is what the OP wants. If its not very good at scanning certain files then what does he expect for FREE.

probably something that scans (or at least finds) all files... f-prot for dos (as well as just about every other dos scanner) uses dos api's to enumerate the file system and windows support of those api's doesn't provide for complete enumeration of the file system (because windows doesn't abide by the same file system constraints that dos did)... just because it runs on windows boxes doesn't mean it works on windows boxes...

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