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  • BBS Virus Program

    From mark lewis@1:3634/12.73 to Daryl Stout on Sun Mar 20 02:31:02 2016

    19 Mar 16 12:29, you wrote to All:

    In the past, Sysops used things like THDPro, combined with either McAfee's Scan or the program from F-Prot to scan new uploads.

    AFAIK, F-Prot's is still available... just not as easily located... one might also be able to use clamav since that is command line scanning only... i've not
    tried it as i still use my original thdpro installation with f-prot and maybe one or two other scanners... i know that i stopped using one and that because it was impossible to find newer signatures to work with that old command line version...

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  • From Daryl Stout@1:19/33 to All on Sat Mar 19 12:29:00 2016

    In the past, Sysops used things like THDPro, combined with either McAfee's Scan or the program from F-Prot to scan new uploads.

    However, to my knowledge, there are no stand alone command line prompt anti-virus programs anymore...all are 32-bit or 64-bit, most with Windows.

    Does anyone have any recommendations or comments on this??

    Daryl

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  • From Daryl Stout@1:19/33 to Mark Lewis on Mon Mar 21 11:29:00 2016

    Mark,

    In the past, Sysops used things like THDPro, combined with either McAfee's Scan or the program from F-Prot to scan new uploads.

    AFAIK, F-Prot's is still available... just not as easily located... one migh ML>also be able to use clamav since that is command line scanning only... i've ML>not
    tried it as i still use my original thdpro installation with f-prot and mayb ML>one or two other scanners... i know that i stopped using one and that becaus ML>it was impossible to find newer signatures to work with that old command lin ML>version...

    That is the main problem...the new virus signatures are no longer updated with the command line scanners. Plus, you have to have a license to use them...and once you have a virus scanner on your system it tends to FIGHT with competing scanners, thinking the competing scanner and datafiles are malware.

    Right now, I have the IOBit Advanced System Care (which includes the IObit Malware Fighter)...but the command line length for these programs is limited in
    size.

    Daryl

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  • From Allen Prunty@1:2320/100 to Daryl Stout on Sat Jul 23 16:52:27 2016
    Re: BBS Virus Program
    By: Daryl Stout to All on Sat Mar 19 2016 12:33 pm

    However, to my knowledge, there are no stand alone command line prompt anti-virus programs anymore...all are 32-bit or 64-bit, most with Windows.

    Does anyone have any recommendations or comments on this??

    According to the documentation in the add on upload processor for synchronet avast 9.0 has the capability to scan by command line. Now I'm not sure exactly how to download that version of avast and if it's updated but the "Digital Distortions" upload processor uses it.

    Allen

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