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dual boot virus software
Name: tom Date: August 16, 2002 at 15:49:00 Pacific
Comment:
What virus software will work in a dual boot system ?thanks
Name: Bryan Date: August 16, 2002 at 16:52:24 Pacific
Reply:
McAfee VirusScan, but it depends on what you mean by dual boot. If you are talking about Windows and DOS, when you install it in Windows (95/98) it will also install a DOS call in autoexec.bat which you can then copy into your DOS autoexec (which you can rename with the shell command in config.sys to avoid confusion).
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Response Number 2
Name: Phil Date: August 16, 2002 at 17:57:09 Pacific
Reply:
I have dual boot Millenium & XP. Running any AV software from my XP OS scans every partition even Millenium. I dont think i'd be able to scan XP OS from my Millenium OS though because i'm using the NTFS file system with XP.
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Response Number 3
Name: XENA Date: August 17, 2002 at 23:51:37 Pacific
Reply:
Run XP Pro and ME have not problems, but my XP was installed under fat 32, not NTFS.
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