Obviously XP (with SP2) is a lot more stable than its former life versions BUT what is the Avast recommended way to re-boot and do a scan should it all go badly wrong.
Modern PC’s don’t seem to have floppies to boot from, so all I have done is copied the OS CD disk to boot from just in case ( to keep the original safe : )
Personally I am familiar with dos and its commands, so could do a safe boot into the dos command and then ‘ashavast’ to start the scanner (or even write a batch file) … is this OK or do you suggest another method. Make up a boot cd and put some avast files on, if so which??
It’s not possible with Home version. Professional version has command line features to use with DOS.
You should use avast! for DOS (burned into a CD or, better, an USB pen drive).
avast!, like Eddy said, has a boot-time scanning for Windows XP.
I suppose what I am really asking is … a lot of ‘other’ virus check programs get you to make up an ‘emergency disk’ for use when … but not Avast, too good a program I guess huh? ;D
avast! BART CD trial download is available only for serious potential buyers after online request, visit http://avast.com/i_kat_205.php?lang=ENG page.
Public download is not available.
If your XP partition is formated as NTFS (not FAT32) you will need a copy of ntfsdos (freeware, see link below) rather than bog standard dos in order to be able to read ntfs folders, etc. http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/NtfsDos.html
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So do I just burn all the downloaded, unzipped Avast for DOS files onto a CD then?
Cheers mate :-*