To make it short: CPU - Pentium133; RAM - 24 Mb; HDD - 1.5 Gb; FDD - 3.5". The man said he couldn’t buy new hardware (it’s not private) and asked me to find a reliable on-demand antivirus scaner to check floppies and CDs.
I tried DrWeb-CureIt: it works but takes 3-4 minutes to start and be ready to check floppies.
Could anybody give me a piece of advice?
I don’t know of any modern on-demand scanner that would run with these minimum specifications, the crippler probably being 24MB RAM. I’m surprised DrWeb’s CureIt did.
Add to that it is probably running running an old Operating System (?) which will also rule out many of the on-demand scanners.
Knowing the OS is vital.
If it’s DOS/Win3.x, you can use avast for DOS.
If it’s Win95, it’s hard to find one that will work well (24MB RAM is really little!)
Thanks
Vlk
What PC is running? An Spectrum or a Commodore?? ;D ;D ;D
You can use F-Prot for DOS (http://www.f-prot.com/products/home_use/dos/).
It’s difficult to find a resident protector for only 24Mb of RAM…
I believe The old legacy version of Command will. However they are not updating the Engine anymore, only database updates and no tech support. And even the legacy version is $39.95 a year
The PC works under Windows 98 Second Edition. 
Nice, is it?
And I need only an on-demand scaner - without resident part. DrWeb-Cureit has already checked the system and found it clean.
24MB of RAM for 98SE, that thing must crawl. because you want on-demand only try F-Prot for DOS mentioned earlier in the thread
So, avast or F-Prot for DOS will do it.
Also, there are tools for automatic download of F-Prot updates in the web.
avast for DOS will work great and the virus database is closer to the Windows version.