what ever happen'd to the good ol DOSS av programs

[Shelby]

i got a small problem not sure how to handle it as every thing i have found or use these days is windows base's , years back you took your anti virus cd place'd it in the cd drv and fire'd the pc up it did it thing with nothing open or in use on the hard drv so it 99.9 % of the time found what it need'd to find , these days every thing has to use windows so where does the bad stuff head yep right into windows or IE and hide knowing you can't find it in a file that is open and in use

 

so is there any way to use these programs in a doss envirement and not have windows open and runing

[strang3majik]

i got a small problem not sure how to handle it as every thing i have found or use these days is windows base's , years back you took your anti virus cd place'd it in the cd drv and fire'd the pc up it did it thing with nothing open or in use on the hard drv so it 99.9 % of the time found what it need'd to find , these days every thing has to use windows so where does the bad stuff head yep right into windows or IE and hide knowing you can't find it in a file that is open and in use

 

so is there any way to use these programs in a doss envirement and not have windows open and runing

 

 

avg had something like that ive used before...you booted it up in safe mode and it ran it that way through the command prompt. But, for the life of me, i cant remember what it was called....oh, and it was free as well

 

ill use the almighty google and hunt quick

[strang3majik]

found it...its called vcleaner. Worked pretty good once i understood how to use it

 

http://www.grisoft.com/ww.virus-removal