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Posted by =?Utf-8?B?QkM=?= on January 8, 2006, 4:32 pm
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Is there a way to boot a NTFS drive into DOS and use an AV program that will
run from a floppy or CD that can id and remove viruses?
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Posted by David H. Lipman on January 8, 2006, 4:54 pm
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| Is there a way to boot a NTFS drive into DOS and use an AV program that will
| run from a floppy or CD that can id and remove viruses?
Yes. And here is one of those tools. The following contains the AV part. Read
teh PDF
Help File about booting from DOS and using NTFS4DOS..
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
* * * Please report back your results * * *
--
Dave
http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
http://www.ik-cs.com/got-a-virus.htm
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Posted by cquirke (MVP Windows shell/use on January 9, 2006, 6:54 am
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>Is there a way to boot a NTFS drive into DOS
No. DOS won't load from NTFS, so it can't get running to the point
that it could load drivers that can read NTFS.
>and use an AV program that will run from a floppy or CD that
>can id and remove viruses?
Abstract what you want, and your mileage will improve ;-)
It's not really "DOS" you want here, it is a maintenance OS (mOS) that
can boot and run scanners etc. without running the infected contents
of the NTFS volume(s). There are several ways to attain this...
http://cquirke.mvps.org/whatmos.htm
...and while a DOS 1.44M diskette boot with NTFS drivers is one of
these, it is probably not the best choice.
I've tried that, running F-Prot for DOS in this manner. It does run
in hte tiny amount of DOSmemory left after 300k of NTFS driver TSR has
loaded, but it can only read NTFS, not write to it (and thus no clean
anything). More to the point, it is unable to scan an entire volume;
attempts to do scans on a few subtrees and files, as if there's a
failure to properly recurse and traverse the NTFS file system.
I get far better results using Bart PE as the mOS, booting this off
CDR and using Bart's plugin system to redirect access to the HD's
registry hives (RnScanner) and run various tools, such as McAfee and
F-Prot CLI Win32 scanners, Trend SysClean, Stinger, AntiVir, AdAware,
Spybot, HiJackThis, all the NirSoft integration checkers, etc.
If you're a Linux fundi, you can choose one of several Linuxes
bootable from CDR, but the abandoned "capture" project never got
beyond reading NTFS to safely writing to it.
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