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| thecomeons 2003-08-23, 11:02 am |
| okay, this guy i do upgrades for has had several machines come back with the blaster virus. which is easy to remove using the tool provided by symantec and then a patch is removed to stop it happening again. easy enough.
now he's worried about other virii. he did the blaster thing under warranty (idiot), and i guess he wants me to check warranty-returned machines for sobig and other virii making the news.
it's simple enough to keep signatures updated and add the harddrive to be checked to your system as an additional drive and scan it that way, but what i want to know is if there is an av solution that i can have on cd-rom to check for virus infestation in the field as it where (i do work for this guy in his garage)?
i haven't created disks for my version of norton av (2000?), but i think it creates like 8 floppies. do more recent versions of nav (this guy upgrades machines to xp) allow signatures to be written to cd (i think earlier versions could write to zip disk) - or would i have to see about getting a different solution? | |
| jkhnwspec 2003-08-23, 11:15 am |
| thecomeons you make an interesting and valid point. 
Not sure if there is one available, but if there was, I would want the CD used to be bootable too; providing the machine in question could boot from CD.
I wonder if one of the bootable Linux CD's, such as Knoppix or Peanut Linux, wouldn't be able to use a virus engine, manufacturer of the user's choosing, for doing just what you describe. I would think you would want it on CD-RW, so you could update the definitions, or whatever the particular anti-virus engine used, on a regular basis. I suppose CD-R could be used, but then you would need to recreate the CD each time a new definition set was released, which lately, seems to be on a daily basis.
This calls for more research. | |
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| thecomeons 2003-08-23, 12:26 pm |
| http://www.avast.com/i_idt_171.html
the same crowd do a free app that scans for various worms 
thanks for the link, it won't scan for all virii, but it seems that it will scan for the popular worms that cause the most trouble. | |
| jkhnwspec 2003-08-23, 3:42 pm |
| Cool! Thanks for the link you posted too.
I'll have to bookmark them for future reference.  | |
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| The Blaster cleaner from Trend actually scans for a range of worms and virus - very handy. | |
| nergalsharazer 2003-08-24, 1:13 am |
| You could copy all the virus removal tools from Norton to a CD, make the CD bootable and write a batch file to run them, or just run them individually. I’m going to try it. It would be handy to have all the removal tools together, especially on a rewriteable CD. You could add more removal tools as needed. It would work for a FAT system. Burned CD compatibility could become an issue on older systems though. Maybe, I guess. | |
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| nergalsharazer - great idea, I have one made up already. To solve the problem of older machines with CD-RW, just use something like NTI CD Maker and you can add to a CDR. |
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