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Scanning XP computer over the local network Steve Pope 07-05-2006
Posted by Steve Pope on July 5, 2006, 6:19 pm
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Sorry if this is an elementary question but:

I have one machine with NAV installed, and a second running
Windows XP Home on the local network. I can scan filesystems
on the XP machine from the first one, however the directories
C:\Windows and C:\Program Files are not shareable, therefore
are not scanned (Symantec silently skips over them). Of course
these are also the directories most likely to have viruses
in them. The normal Windows dialogue box for sharing does not
operate due to their being system directories.

Is there a way of making them shareable/readable? (A brute-force
approach would be make readable copies of them, and scan those.)

Thanks,
Steve

Posted by David H. Lipman on July 5, 2006, 6:22 pm
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| Sorry if this is an elementary question but:
|
| I have one machine with NAV installed, and a second running
| Windows XP Home on the local network. I can scan filesystems
| on the XP machine from the first one, however the directories
| C:\Windows and C:\Program Files are not shareable, therefore
| are not scanned (Symantec silently skips over them). Of course
| these are also the directories most likely to have viruses
| in them. The normal Windows dialogue box for sharing does not
| operate due to their being system directories.
|
| Is there a way of making them shareable/readable? (A brute-force
| approach would be make readable copies of them, and scan those.)
|
| Thanks,
| Steve

XP Home Edition on both computers ?

XP Professional supplies the administrative shares; c$, D$, etc which is not
available on
XP Home.

Perform the scan on the system from the POV of that system.


Download MULTI_AV.EXE from the URL --
http://www.ik-cs.com/programs/virtools/Multi_AV.exe

To use this utility, perform the following...
Execute; Multi_AV.exe { Note: You must use the default folder C:\AV-CLS }
Choose; Unzip
Choose; Close

Execute; C:\AV-CLS\StartMenu.BAT
{ or Double-click on 'Start Menu' in C:\AV-CLS }

NOTE: You may have to disable your software FireWall or allow WGET.EXE to go
through your
FireWall to allow it to download the needed AV vendor related files.

C:\AV-CLS\StartMenu.BAT -- { or Double-click on 'Start Menu' in C:\AV-CLS}
This will bring up the initial menu of choices and should be executed in Normal
Mode.
This way all the components can be downloaded from each AV vendor's web site.
The choices are; Sophos, Trend, McAfee, Kaspersky, Exit this menu and Reboot the
PC.

You can choose to go to each menu item and just download the needed files or you
can
download the files and perform a scan in Normal Mode. Once you have downloaded
the files
needed for each scanner you want to use, you should reboot the PC into Safe Mode
[F8 key
during boot] and re-run the menu again and choose which scanner you want to run
in Safe
Mode. It is suggested to run the scanners in both Safe Mode and Normal Mode.

When the menu is displayed hitting 'H' or 'h' will bring up a more comprehensive
PDF help
file. http://www.ik-cs.com/multi-av.htm

Additional Instructions:
http://pcdid.com/Multi_AV.htm


* * * Please report back your results * * *





--
Dave
http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
http://www.ik-cs.com/got-a-virus.htm



Posted by Steve Pope on July 5, 2006, 6:25 pm
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>| Sorry if this is an elementary question but:
>|
>| I have one machine with NAV installed, and a second running
>| Windows XP Home on the local network. I can scan filesystems
>| on the XP machine from the first one, however the directories
>| C:\Windows and C:\Program Files are not shareable, therefore
>| are not scanned (Symantec silently skips over them). Of course
>| these are also the directories most likely to have viruses
>| in them. The normal Windows dialogue box for sharing does not
>| operate due to their being system directories.
>|
>| Is there a way of making them shareable/readable? (A brute-force
>| approach would be make readable copies of them, and scan those.)
>|
>| Thanks,
>| Steve

>XP Home Edition on both computers ?

Nope, NAV is on a Win95B machine.

>XP Professional supplies the administrative shares; c$, D$, etc which
>is not available on
>XP Home.

Thanks for the info, on this and Multi-AV.

Steve

Posted by Noel Paton on July 5, 2006, 6:57 pm
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> Nope, NAV is on a Win95B machine.
>


You have GOT to be kidding!
you mean you can persuade NAV to install on a Win95 box, and update to
anything like competence in the current climate??

--
Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2006, Windows)

Nil Carborundum Illegitemi
http://www.crashfixpc.com

http://tinyurl.com/6oztj

Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's


Posted by Steve Pope on July 5, 2006, 7:00 pm
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>> Nope, NAV is on a Win95B machine.

>You have GOT to be kidding!
>you mean you can persuade NAV to install on a Win95 box, and update to
>anything like competence in the current climate??

I'm not why this surprises you. NAV was installed
on this Win95B box some number of years ago, and "Intelligent
Updater" (X86 version) runs correctly when downloaded from
Symantec. They haven't quit supporting it or anything.

Steve

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