Eric Auer schrieb: > Hi! > >> Antivirus for DOS is good like Antivirus for *any barely used OS*, >> because the barely used OS isn't target for viruses. > > True, although you get the same effectivity by booting > a known-clean readonly CD/DVD with any OS at all for > your antivirus work :-).
Yes, because no virus can be in RAM. (besides BIOS viruses if this isn't a myth) Unknown (or self made ;)) operating systems have also still a small advantage over the random operating system: while scanning (reading files from harddisk) there can be no exploits attacking the scan engine or the disk access driver. Ok, that's pretty paranoid thought because such techniques are not yet seen in the wild. > I think Avira free-av.de has a DOS boot disk > with free-for-private-use NTFS drivers somewhere, too. http://www.unet.univie.ac.at/~a0503736/php/drdoswiki/index.php?n=Main.NTFS > Did you already try ClamAV for DOS? I tested ClamAV for Windows. It's a nice project, worth to observe, no damage if using it. But for serious scanning with good results the commercial vendors are still much better. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
