Standalone anti-virus

Burly · 31 Jan 2007 at 17:44

Can someone point me in the direction of a free, reliable anti-virus scan that can be run from an exe i.e. no web scan tests (they are too unreliable, crashes etc)

Thanks

Bizarre · 31 Jan 2007 at 18:04

Take your pick,

Avast

AntiVir

AVG

I find AVG best to use as its so light on system resources.

Burly · 31 Jan 2007 at 18:06

No, I don't want a full active scan like those, I need just a small light standalone file that can be run without being installed (that doesn't offer active protection)

Bizarre · 31 Jan 2007 at 18:32

Hehe, you don't want much considering your willing to pay... nothing.

Anyways,

The only thing I can think of that may suit your needs is "avast BART CD", though you'll need to apply for a 14 day license first.

http://www.avast.com/eng/avast_bart_cd_downlo.html

GL.

Inferno99 · 31 Jan 2007 at 18:33

F-Prot for DOS is free. You will need to update the virus definitions manually though. Used to be rated highly a few years back. :cool:

Burnsy2023 · 31 Jan 2007 at 18:35

It's very unusal to have an AV scanner with only an exe, the BART PE scanner is probably your best bet.

Burnsy

Mr.Clark · 31 Jan 2007 at 18:40

http://portableapps.com/

The whole suite is very useful. They're applications that have been designed to run off a USB key rather than needing to be installed.

As well as Portable Firefox/OpenOffice and so on is Portable ClamWin.

You need internet access to update it, but the app is standalone and you don't need a 'net connection to actually do the scan.

It picked up stuff that our corporate McAfee at work didn't, so not bad at all, really.

Burnsy2023 · 31 Jan 2007 at 18:43

I stand corrected

Burnsy

JayMax · 31 Jan 2007 at 20:13

Would the Trend Micro System Cleaner and Damage Cleanup Package meet your needs?

http://uk.trendmicro-europe.com/enterprise/support/tsc.php

Burly · 31 Jan 2007 at 20:39

thank you very much JayMax

Fr0dders · 31 Jan 2007 at 20:57

AVG comes highly recommended

http://free.grisoft.com/doc/1

digitalis · 31 Jan 2007 at 21:04

McAfee dailyscan will do this from the command prompt -

download here

unzip to a folder on C drive, call it scan, then
open up command prompt, change directory to the unzipped scan folder, then
at the C:\SCAN\> prompt, type SCAN /ADL /CLEAN /ALL /REPORT Report.txt

this should do a scan and make a report file in the scan folder for you.
Haven't done it for ages, but I think this is how you do it, as far as I can recall.

Stinger will do it as well, but it's not as thorough.

S.