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Virus checker for slow machine! Fred 07-25-2005
Posted by Fred on July 25, 2005, 9:42 am
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I'd rather not install any virus software on this rather ancient machine as
it runs very slow and is only occasionally connected to the internet and
then only on dial-up.

However I suspect there are some things on this machine which ought not be -
just a hunch due to her son's downloading of a few dodgy porn progs.

I was intending to use AdAware, for any spyware, which won't use up any
resources except when being run.

However most virus checkers use valuable resources, even when not in use,
which is undesirable in this instance. Is there a virus checker which can
run from CD without actually being installed? Is there one which can boot
from the CD and run it's check over the installed hard drives?





Posted by kurt wismer on July 25, 2005, 7:44 am
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Fred wrote:
> I'd rather not install any virus software on this rather ancient machine as
> it runs very slow and is only occasionally connected to the internet and
> then only on dial-up.

and malware can tell what way you're connecting to the internet and turn
up it's nose at you when it's dial-up...

oh, and by the way, that's sarcasm...

you're no safer over dial-up...

> However I suspect there are some things on this machine which ought not be -
> just a hunch due to her son's downloading of a few dodgy porn progs.
>
> I was intending to use AdAware, for any spyware, which won't use up any
> resources except when being run.
>
> However most virus checkers use valuable resources, even when not in use,
> which is undesirable in this instance.

most virus checkers can be configured to not run the
on-access/background scanning component...

> Is there a virus checker which can
> run from CD without actually being installed? Is there one which can boot
> from the CD and run it's check over the installed hard drives?

not many provide for a bootable recovery cd... that's sort of something
you'll have to work out on your own...

--
"they threw a rope around yer neck to watch you dance the jig of death
then left ya for the starvin' crows, hoverin' like hungry whores
one flew down plucked out yer eye, the other he had in his sights
ya snarled at him, said leave me be - i need the bugger so i can see"


Posted by Fred on July 25, 2005, 1:03 pm
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> Fred wrote:
>> I'd rather not install any virus software on this rather ancient machine
>> as
>> it runs very slow and is only occasionally connected to the internet and
>> then only on dial-up.
>
> and malware can tell what way you're connecting to the internet and turn
> up it's nose at you when it's dial-up...
>
> oh, and by the way, that's sarcasm...
>
> you're no safer over dial-up...

It does prevent the downloading of big files! LOL

>
>> However I suspect there are some things on this machine which ought not
>> be -
>> just a hunch due to her son's downloading of a few dodgy porn progs.
>>
>> I was intending to use AdAware, for any spyware, which won't use up any
>> resources except when being run.
>>
>> However most virus checkers use valuable resources, even when not in use,
>> which is undesirable in this instance.
>
> most virus checkers can be configured to not run the on-access/background
> scanning component...

We are talking of a very slow machine with only 64MB of RAM. I really don't
want to install anything which may use any of this if at all possible.

>
>> Is there a virus checker which can
>> run from CD without actually being installed? Is there one which can
>> boot
>> from the CD and run it's check over the installed hard drives?
>
> not many provide for a bootable recovery cd... that's sort of something
> you'll have to work out on your own...
>

Oh dear that's a shame. I thought there used to be some but it was a long
time ago.




Posted by Malke on July 25, 2005, 6:52 am
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Fred wrote:

>
>> Fred wrote:
>>> I'd rather not install any virus software on this rather ancient
>>> machine as
>>> it runs very slow and is only occasionally connected to the internet
>>> and then only on dial-up.
>>
>> and malware can tell what way you're connecting to the internet and
>> turn up it's nose at you when it's dial-up...
>>
>> oh, and by the way, that's sarcasm...
>>
>> you're no safer over dial-up...
>
> It does prevent the downloading of big files! LOL
>
>>
>>> However I suspect there are some things on this machine which ought
>>> not be -
>>> just a hunch due to her son's downloading of a few dodgy porn progs.
>>>
>>> I was intending to use AdAware, for any spyware, which won't use up
>>> any resources except when being run.
>>>
>>> However most virus checkers use valuable resources, even when not in
>>> use, which is undesirable in this instance.
>>
>> most virus checkers can be configured to not run the
>> on-access/background scanning component...
>
> We are talking of a very slow machine with only 64MB of RAM. I really
> don't want to install anything which may use any of this if at all
> possible.
>
>>
>>> Is there a virus checker which can
>>> run from CD without actually being installed? Is there one which
>>> can boot
>>> from the CD and run it's check over the installed hard drives?
>>
>> not many provide for a bootable recovery cd... that's sort of
>> something you'll have to work out on your own...
>>
>
> Oh dear that's a shame. I thought there used to be some but it was a
> long time ago.

You can run Sysclean without installing it. You do need to copy it to
the hard drive. I assume with such a little bit of RAM that this is a
Win9x/ME machine. You could run F-Prot for DOS on it. You will still
need to copy it to the hard drive, but it doesn't get installed.

Malke
--
"I have a cunning plan..."


Posted by kurt wismer on July 25, 2005, 7:05 pm
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Fred wrote:
>>Fred wrote:
>>
>>>I'd rather not install any virus software on this rather ancient machine
>>>as
>>>it runs very slow and is only occasionally connected to the internet and
>>>then only on dial-up.
>>
>>and malware can tell what way you're connecting to the internet and turn
>>up it's nose at you when it's dial-up...
>>
>>oh, and by the way, that's sarcasm...
>>
>>you're no safer over dial-up...
>
> It does prevent the downloading of big files! LOL

no it doesn't... it just takes longer... and while they download they
use up your bandwidth and cause other things you're doing to take
longer, thereby causing you to stay online longer...

and of course, the longer you stay online the greater the chance they'll
have to complete the download...

>>>However I suspect there are some things on this machine which ought not
>>>be -
>>>just a hunch due to her son's downloading of a few dodgy porn progs.
>>>
>>>I was intending to use AdAware, for any spyware, which won't use up any
>>>resources except when being run.
>>>
>>>However most virus checkers use valuable resources, even when not in use,
>>>which is undesirable in this instance.
>>
>>most virus checkers can be configured to not run the on-access/background
>>scanning component...
>
> We are talking of a very slow machine with only 64MB of RAM. I really don't
> want to install anything which may use any of this if at all possible.

like i said, they can be configured to not run the parts that stay in
memory...

>>>Is there a virus checker which can
>>>run from CD without actually being installed? Is there one which can
>>>boot
>>>from the CD and run it's check over the installed hard drives?
>>
>>not many provide for a bootable recovery cd... that's sort of something
>>you'll have to work out on your own...
>
> Oh dear that's a shame. I thought there used to be some but it was a long
> time ago.

it's been a big problem ever since NTFS came on the scene... microsoft
does not provide any free or redistributable means of reading NTFS
partitions (used by NT, W2K, XP and W2K3)...

however, there are now free tools for that job, such as the bart pe disk
(http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/) and some people have made anti-virus
plug-ins for it...
--
"they threw a rope around yer neck to watch you dance the jig of death
then left ya for the starvin' crows, hoverin' like hungry whores
one flew down plucked out yer eye, the other he had in his sights
ya snarled at him, said leave me be - i need the bugger so i can see"


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