Antivirus for boot from USB and CD-RW

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Obi-Wan Kenobi

For my job I'm often forced to fight with computers in extreme conditions.
To accelerate and to improve my intervention, I want to get a new antivirus
that can be installed on a USB pen (and also on a CD-RW) so to be able to
keep it easily updated and to avoid the usual endless scannings with the
boot CD of my customer's antivirus (90% Norton with prehistoric signatures).
In few words, what I'm looking for is:
- efficient antivirus (obviously)
- boot from USB and from CD-RW
- fast and easy update for the mentioned CD-RW and USB stick
- does not matter if it's free or commercial: the time that would save for
me is really precious.
Thanks to all for your attention and for your suggestions.
 
I created a boot disk designed for the ZIP drive and I used a parallel port ZIP drive but a
USB drive is also possible. This way I can use random-read/random-write media and have;
Adaware SE, Trend Sysclean and the McAfee Command Line Scanner handy with all easily
updated. You boot from a floppy drive but then are moved to a ZIP drive. You can then run
the McAfee Command Line Scanner since it a dual mode DOS/Win32 program (and with the latest
ENGINE Win64 as well). If you don't boot off the floppy disk then you can still access the
Win32 software and the McAfee Command Line Scanner (assuming the OS has the parallel port or
USB port VxD/miniport driver).

The catch is that if you boot off the floppy you can't access NTFS and that means FAT32
drives only.
--
Dave




| For my job I'm often forced to fight with computers in extreme conditions.
| To accelerate and to improve my intervention, I want to get a new antivirus
| that can be installed on a USB pen (and also on a CD-RW) so to be able to
| keep it easily updated and to avoid the usual endless scannings with the
| boot CD of my customer's antivirus (90% Norton with prehistoric signatures).
| In few words, what I'm looking for is:
| - efficient antivirus (obviously)
| - boot from USB and from CD-RW
| - fast and easy update for the mentioned CD-RW and USB stick
| - does not matter if it's free or commercial: the time that would save for
| me is really precious.
| Thanks to all for your attention and for your suggestions.
|
| --
| Immagino un mondo senza guerra, un mondo senza odio.
| E immagino noi che lo attacchiamo, perche' non se l'aspetteranno.
| MTFBWY
| Obi-Wan (proud member of it.comp.hardware.palmari)
|
|
 
For my job I'm often forced to fight with computers in extreme conditions.
To accelerate and to improve my intervention, I want to get a new antivirus
that can be installed on a USB pen (and also on a CD-RW) so to be able to
keep it easily updated and to avoid the usual endless scannings with the
boot CD of my customer's antivirus (90% Norton with prehistoric signatures).
In few words, what I'm looking for is:
- efficient antivirus (obviously)
- boot from USB and from CD-RW
- fast and easy update for the mentioned CD-RW and USB stick
- does not matter if it's free or commercial: the time that would save for
me is really precious.
Thanks to all for your attention and for your suggestions.
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One of these might work for you http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/ or
http://www.avast.com/eng/avast_bart_cd.html
 
Obi-Wan Kenobi said:
For my job I'm often forced to fight with computers in extreme conditions.
To accelerate and to improve my intervention, I want to get a new antivirus
that can be installed on a USB pen (and also on a CD-RW) so to be able to
keep it easily updated and to avoid the usual endless scannings with the
boot CD of my customer's antivirus (90% Norton with prehistoric signatures).
In few words, what I'm looking for is:
- efficient antivirus (obviously)
- boot from USB and from CD-RW
- fast and easy update for the mentioned CD-RW and USB stick
- does not matter if it's free or commercial: the time that would save for
me is really precious.
Thanks to all for your attention and for your suggestions.

--
Immagino un mondo senza guerra, un mondo senza odio.
E immagino noi che lo attacchiamo, perche' non se l'aspetteranno.
MTFBWY
Obi-Wan (proud member of it.comp.hardware.palmari)
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I use Avast Bart CD manager boot disk, its expensive but works great on
All clients machines, saves hours.
 
http://www.avast.com/eng/avast_bart_cd.html

quote

avast! Bootable Antivirus & Recovery Tools CD (BART CD) is a
breakthrough in the field of administration tools! In short it is a
bootable CD, giving you the capability to detect/clean virus infections
on a computer. All this can be done fast and reliably, without the risk
of spreading the infection any further. But BART CD can do much more! It
also contains tools for editing the registry files (i.e. the files
holding Windows Registry for the operating system) and a tool to check
and fix disk errors.

The latest version of the program is BART 2.0.

And now the main feature is it works on all Windows-supported file
systems, i.e. NTFS as well! Less common storage devices, such as
SCSI/RAID, are also supported. In general BART will work on all disk
devices that Windows XP will work on. Non-standard devices (e.g. in
servers) can be handled by standard Windows XP drivers supplied by the
hardware vendor.

BART CD supports networking as well. After the network support is
started, NETBIOS and TCP/IP protocols will be available. To make the
work more comfortable, it is possible to map network drives. Just enter
the path to the drive (in standard UNC format \\server\share) and select
the letter to map the drive to. After the drive is successfully mapped,
you can work with the network drive just as with any other (local) drive
- e.g. scan it with avast!.

BART CD is a tool no administrator should be without - or anybody who
deals with recovery of data on hard drives. The license model is
specified as a multi node license, i.e. when you buy one BART CD, you
can administrate multiple computers, provided it runs on one computer at
any time and all is done by a single person.
 
Scotty:

If you must attach a Virtual Card File, please don't attach an EMPTY VCF !
What's the point ?

--
Dave




| http://www.avast.com/eng/avast_bart_cd.html
|
| quote
|
| avast! Bootable Antivirus & Recovery Tools CD (BART CD) is a
| breakthrough in the field of administration tools! In short it is a
| bootable CD, giving you the capability to detect/clean virus infections
| on a computer. All this can be done fast and reliably, without the risk
| of spreading the infection any further. But BART CD can do much more! It
| also contains tools for editing the registry files (i.e. the files
| holding Windows Registry for the operating system) and a tool to check
| and fix disk errors.
|
| The latest version of the program is BART 2.0.
|
| And now the main feature is it works on all Windows-supported file
| systems, i.e. NTFS as well! Less common storage devices, such as
| SCSI/RAID, are also supported. In general BART will work on all disk
| devices that Windows XP will work on. Non-standard devices (e.g. in
| servers) can be handled by standard Windows XP drivers supplied by the
| hardware vendor.
|
| BART CD supports networking as well. After the network support is
| started, NETBIOS and TCP/IP protocols will be available. To make the
| work more comfortable, it is possible to map network drives. Just enter
| the path to the drive (in standard UNC format \\server\share) and select
| the letter to map the drive to. After the drive is successfully mapped,
| you can work with the network drive just as with any other (local) drive
| - e.g. scan it with avast!.
|
| BART CD is a tool no administrator should be without - or anybody who
| deals with recovery of data on hard drives. The license model is
| specified as a multi node license, i.e. when you buy one BART CD, you
| can administrate multiple computers, provided it runs on one computer at
| any time and all is done by a single person.
|
 
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So is the price; £189 or $299
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For the time and effort, not to mention important client data it saves, it
has paid for itself time over for me.

Not really for home use, I have the serviceman license for work.
 
<snip>

So is the price; £189 or $299
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Hmm... Why should I pay $299 for something I can build for free?

Bart PE includes plugins for McAfee VirusScan & Adaware and with a
little research you can find plugins for F-Prot for Windows, Kaspersky
Anti-Virus, and NOD32.


Cheers-

Jeff Setaro
jasetaro@SPAM_ME_NOT_mags.net
http://people.mags.net/jasetaro/
PGP Key IDs DH/DSS: 0x5D41429D RSA: 0x599D2A99 New RSA: 0xA19EBD34
 
Obi-Wan Kenobi said:
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This one is not useful for my job as I need to manage lots of Win98 PC's.




I did consider this, but I couldn't find whether it's simple to update, for
example, changing files in one specific folder on the CD-RW.

--
Immagino un mondo senza guerra, un mondo senza odio.
E immagino noi che lo attacchiamo, perche' non se l'aspetteranno.
MTFBWY
Obi-Wan (proud member of it.comp.hardware.palmari)
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I think you need an Enterprise type license, but McAfee produces a tool
called CleanBoot, only works on CD-Rs, at least that's all I tested it
on. You could contact them see if they're selling it standalone now.

Ian
 
Was CleanBoot released ?

Last I remembered about it was it was in Beta and then I didn't hear anything new about it.

BOOTSCAN.EXE appears to be no longer updated with Emergency DAT files and probably no longer
supported.
 
David said:
Was CleanBoot released ?

Last I remembered about it was it was in Beta and then I didn't hear anything new about it.

BOOTSCAN.EXE appears to be no longer updated with Emergency DAT files and probably no longer
supported.
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Yeah they released it, for grant holders only initially, back in July or
August I think, there was a furor about not being able to buy it
standalone from the BETA group, don't know if they ever resolved it
though. I have access through a grant so haven't bothered looking.
 
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