Re: DOS virus scan software

From: NSM (nowrite_at_to.me)
Date: 10/17/04 

Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2004 05:50:12 GMT

"Lenny" <captainvideo462002@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:d980bc2c.0410162141.d0e4e73@posting.google.com...
| I'm running a 386/25 with Dos 6.2 for billing. Recently it has been
| having problems with bad sectors on the drive showing, and refusing to
| boot unless you boot off a floppy and do a sys c: from the A drive.
| Now it will not boot from the hard drive at all. Luckily I copied my
| customer files before this happened. But there is alot of other stuff
| I would like to get off it. To rule out a virus problem is there an up
| to date scan program I can get that will run from a floppy on a Dos
| machine? Thanks, Lenny Stein, Barlen Electronics.

AVG will create a boot floppy with a virus test and it's free.

http://www.grisoft.com/us/us_index.php

N

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