DOS ain't dead

This is very unfortunate, but the DOS version has been removed from the official website. I don't understand why... It is common sense that the DOS version would be the most useful even for cleaning Windows! Fortunately, definition files may still be downloaded freely.

> This is very unfortunate, but the DOS version has been removed from the
> official website. I don't understand why... It is common sense that the

Sorry, but you're wrong: Download F-PROT Antivirus for DOS - Personal Use
I already point to this page from http://www.bttr-software.de/links/#av for several weeks.

P.S. Please don't use additional line breaks in your posts.

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> I already point to this page from
> http://www.bttr-software.de/links/#av for several weeks.

BTW, your link to Blair's p7zip is outdated (4.42). I understand that Michael Kostolev (sp?) has had site issues, so try linking to here instead for the latest 4.55 p7zip/DJGPP binary: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/util/file/7zip/

> Sorry, but you're wrong:
> [link=http://www.f-prot.com/download/home_user/download_fpdos.html]Download

It is good to hear that I'm wrong. =) Thanks for the link. I didn't notice it on your website. By the way, when I started from http://www.f-prot.com/, I couldn't reach that download location. The following was all I found: "We no longer offer F-PROT Antivirus for DOS. Please refer to F-PROT Antivirus for Windows or our products for other platforms for your needs." This might mean that the DOS version will soon be removed. If you visit http://www.f-prot.com/download/home_user/, the link to the DOS version does not exist!

> BTW, your link to Blair's p7zip is outdated (4.42).

I know.

> for the latest 4.55 p7zip/DJGPP binary:
> http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/util/file/7zip/

Will think about it. Thanks!

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> it on your website. By the way, when I started from
> http://www.f-prot.com/, I couldn't reach that download
> ...

I know. That's why I changed the link some weeks ago.

> http://www.f-prot.com/download/home_user/, the link to the
> DOS version does not exist!

Maybe you want to revive Eric Auer's Clam AntiVirus port.

P.S. again: Please use additional line breaks only for new paragraphs. This forum wraps long lines automatically.

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> Maybe you want to revive Eric Auer's Clam
> AntiVirus port.

Eric didn't do the port, Joergen Ibsen did. And I recently contacted him via e-mail, but he's too busy to (probably) do it again these days:

> I don't have a working DJGPP compiler environment anymore since it
> does not appear to work correctly under Windows XP, but back when I
> compiled the mentioned version it was just using the latest DJGPP
> release at the time.
>
> It was primarily some differences in readdir and *nprintf functions,
> and looking through the diff and the current source it appears most of
> the places I changed now have similar changes for cygwin
> compatibility. It might work to compile with C_CYGWIN, but it's a bit
> of a long shot.
>
> I might try to get DJGPP running in a VM at some point, but right now
> I am afraid I don't have the time for setting it up.
>
> Regards, Joergen Ibsen

I pointed him to my FreeDOS mini distro, hoping that would help get him up and running. But he needs time, so I didn't press him too hard. (Besides, we still have F-Prot, as mentioned above, and others like RHBVS).

FYI, here's what Eric has on his site:

2071    2004-03-05      04:18:25        clamav-0.67-dos.diff.gz
135206  2004-02-28      22:20:44        clamscan-dos-exe.zip

http://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/~eric/stuff/soft/by-others/

> Eric didn't do the port, Joergen Ibsen did.

Sorry for this lie.

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> > Eric didn't do the port, Joergen Ibsen did.
>
> Sorry for this lie.

I demand that you ban yourself for this sin!

> DOS version has been removed from the official website.
> I don't understand why...

Lacking archive support, lack of effort to update, and

> DOS version would be the most useful even for cleaning Windows!

Exactly ^^^ this "reason"

> Fortunately, definition files may still be downloaded freely.

Fortunately even more, DOS is the only unvirable OS in the universe

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the following string:*** This is Copyright 1983 Microsoft ***

> > Fortunately, definition files may still be downloaded freely.
>
> Fortunately even more, DOS is the only unvirable OS in the universe

You mean no one's writing viruses for it any more :)

DOS used to be pretty notorious for viruses back in the day.

The only OSes that are "unvirable" are systems employing decent security mechanisms (a la linux/bsd/etc)

> DOS used to be pretty notorious for viruses back in the day.

This was 25 years ago because people refused to believe that computer viruses exist at all

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This is a LOGITECH mouse driver, but some software expect here
the following string:*** This is Copyright 1983 Microsoft ***

> > DOS used to be pretty notorious for viruses back in the day.
>
> This was 25 years ago because people refused to believe that
> computer viruses exist at all

Which people? Software attacks were already old, 25 years ago. It was no big trouble for attackers to extend their range to DOS, and no big news to knowing administrators and users that defense would be nice.