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Old 07-03-2008, 10:50 PM
Will
 
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Re: Anti Virus Solutions That Use Their Own Boot CD?
"David H. Lipman" <DLipman~nospam~@Verizon.Net> wrote in message
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> From: "Will" <westes-usc@noemail.nospam>
>
> | A well-made product of the kind I am describing contains a program to
> create
> | that boot CD on demand, from the latest updates.
>
> | It's the same model that ERD Commander uses to build new recovery boot
> CDs,
> | installing different sets of device drivers on each build.
>
> | If you have a suspect computer, you would go to the "safe" computer,
> | download the latest virus files, then build a new boot CD and use it the
> | same day to do your inspection of the infected computer.
>
> | --
> | Will
>
> That's true. I explain such a concept in using a surrugate PC to download
> updates for my
> Multi AV Scanning tool and transferring the Multi AV to a thumb drive (or
> media,
> preferrably Read/Write media) and then to an infected PC and boot from a
> DOS Disk or a DOS
> disk with NTFS4DOS.
>
>
> Download MULTI_AV.EXE from the URL --
> http://www.pctipp.ch/ds/28400/28470/Multi_AV.exe
>
> http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp
>
> English:
> http://www.raymond.cc/blog/archives/...irus-for-free/


The idea of combining multiple anti-virus programs to one integrated
environment is nice. You would think someone would have figured out how to
sell that as a subscription service and then send out a new CD every two
weeks and charge for it? I would gladly pay and do not have the time to
put these kinds of packages together and then constantly update them.

--
Will


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