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Fidcal
Anyone know an anti-virus program that does the following.....
1. Has an option to NOT automatically remove any viruses it
finds but report first and ask you what you want to do.
2. Can scan all partitions with above option without stopping
until the end to report and ask what you want to do.
3. Ideally (and this is only a dream so I'd settle for 1 & 2
above only) can flag a file to ALWAYS SKIP.
For example, I like to run it overnight. I do NOT want to check
it in the morning and find it stopped a two-hour scan after two
minutes because it found a virus and is waiting for my
instructions. I want it to complete the whole scan of all
partitions and THEN report any viruses it found in the scan and
ask me for instructions, eg, remove, skip, get info, flag
'ignore in future',etc.
I have looked at a great many and only Norton can do 1 & 2 of
the above of the ones I have tested. Anyone know of any other?
Why don't I want it to auto-clean?
1. Norton regularly finds an old Dos program of mine that works
like recycle bin. It somehow intercepts the old Dos DEL command
and sends stuff to a Trash folder. The program is harmless but
Norton always regards it as a virus because it works like a
virus. Fair enough. But I wish I could flag it as 'ignore in the
future' and also, any anti-virus program that found this might
wreck it if it auto-cleaned.
2. Any real viruses I like to copy to a carefully-marked,
write-protected floppy as a test disk for reference and testing.
3. I'm a control freak and like to tell the program what to do -
not the other way round.
I've just tested AVG Free (pretty good otherwise) and it doesn't
do the above. Incidentally it removed the viruses from one of my
test disks before I realized it wasn't write-protected (I'd
added a new virus to it recently). Gone are some of my
lovely-preserved test viruses accumulated over years! This is
why I'm a control freak.
1. Has an option to NOT automatically remove any viruses it
finds but report first and ask you what you want to do.
2. Can scan all partitions with above option without stopping
until the end to report and ask what you want to do.
3. Ideally (and this is only a dream so I'd settle for 1 & 2
above only) can flag a file to ALWAYS SKIP.
For example, I like to run it overnight. I do NOT want to check
it in the morning and find it stopped a two-hour scan after two
minutes because it found a virus and is waiting for my
instructions. I want it to complete the whole scan of all
partitions and THEN report any viruses it found in the scan and
ask me for instructions, eg, remove, skip, get info, flag
'ignore in future',etc.
I have looked at a great many and only Norton can do 1 & 2 of
the above of the ones I have tested. Anyone know of any other?
Why don't I want it to auto-clean?
1. Norton regularly finds an old Dos program of mine that works
like recycle bin. It somehow intercepts the old Dos DEL command
and sends stuff to a Trash folder. The program is harmless but
Norton always regards it as a virus because it works like a
virus. Fair enough. But I wish I could flag it as 'ignore in the
future' and also, any anti-virus program that found this might
wreck it if it auto-cleaned.
2. Any real viruses I like to copy to a carefully-marked,
write-protected floppy as a test disk for reference and testing.
3. I'm a control freak and like to tell the program what to do -
not the other way round.
I've just tested AVG Free (pretty good otherwise) and it doesn't
do the above. Incidentally it removed the viruses from one of my
test disks before I realized it wasn't write-protected (I'd
added a new virus to it recently). Gone are some of my
lovely-preserved test viruses accumulated over years! This is
why I'm a control freak.
What a contradiction! The antivirus requires