how to use systemworks Cd to virus scan @ bootup..

[ceez]

Zup peeps,

As some of you might know, if you boot up with a systemworks or nortonAV cd it prompts to do a virus scan in DOS mode. My question is how can I use that feature with an updated virus definition?!?!

thkz

[prathapml]

There must be a VirusDefs directory on CD, or the boot-sector is a floppy-image (.img) that contains the virdefs as a CAB file. Tell us how you did it!

[ceez]

thkz for the reply prathapml, but how exactly would i do this? Can someone explain

[prathapml]

Search the entire CD if there's any folder anywhere spelt "VirusDefs" or something like that.

Or, make an ISO-image of the CD (using UltraISO or something), and extract the boot-sector. Rename the extracted boot-sector to have a .img extension, and this file will normally be approx. 2 MB. Open this (floppy-bootable-image) in WinImage, and look for a VirusDefs folder, or a .CAB compressed file - in both cases, the definitions will be in a few files with .DAT extension.

Hoping this helps....