Re: DOS virus scan software

From: Tom MacIntyre (tom__macintyre_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 10/17/04 

Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2004 15:03:35 GMT

On 16 Oct 2004 22:41:01 -0700, captainvideo462002@yahoo.com (Lenny)
wrote:

>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.

Lenny...it's probably a HDD on the way down.

Tom

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