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Xacalite

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IBM PC DOS 7.0 was shipped with IBM Antivirus.
Later on, IBM ceased to support their Antivirus, instead licensed Norton AntiVirus, making it available for download for PC DOS users.
And it's still downloadable - ftp://ftp.symantec.com/comwrap/navibmdw.exe
...along with the tool to uninstall IBM Antivirus - ftp://ftp.symantec.com/comwrap/unibmzip.exe

It's a good antivirus for vintage PCs (286+), I only encountered problems with its memory-resident components, but they are easily disabled, and the scanner itself works very well.

However, virus definition updates for this product are no longer available from Symantec.

I have an update from September 07, 2001 (0907i16.exe).

I'm looking for later updates.
They were available via download, or on CD-ROM media - perhaps somebody still has such CDs?
 
I don't really see the point of this... my DOS PC doesn't even have a NIC in it right now and not connected to any sort of network. No one's going to break into my house and put viruses on it. lol And even if someone did... I'd just nuke the drive and reinstall DOS... it's just used for games.
 
Xacalite said:
However, virus definition updates for this product are no longer available from Symantec.

I have an update from September 07, 2001 (0907i16.exe).

I'm looking for later updates.
They were available via download, or on CD-ROM media - perhaps somebody still has such CDs?
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I have a Norton SystemWorks 2003 and Norton AntiVirus 2003 CD set with definitions from August 13, 2002, August 18, 2002, and August 28, 2002.
 
If using MS-DOS 6.22 it already has antivirus software, to access type at C:\> vsafe for real time scanning, or msav for virus scan... but I think it would be really difficult to get a DOS virus nowadays.
 
Stone said:
I have a Norton SystemWorks 2003 and Norton AntiVirus 2003 CD set with definitions from August 13, 2002, August 18, 2002, and August 28, 2002.
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If there's the 16-bit version (probably named ****i16.exe), I'm interested in the latest update.
Can you upload it somewhere?
 
Heheheh... as you can see they're not in a format like that as all!

Code: 
 Volume in drive E is NSW2003 Volume Serial Number is 3837-C301


 Directory of E:\VIRUSDEF


08/30/2002  09:49 AM    <DIR>          .
08/30/2002  09:49 AM    <DIR>          ..
08/13/2002  09:00 PM             1,253 CATALOG.DAT
08/29/2002  05:14 PM            69,632 DEFINST.EXE
08/30/2002  09:49 AM    <DIR>          LATEST
08/13/2002  09:00 PM            98,240 NAVENG.EXP
08/13/2002  09:00 PM            66,816 NAVENG.SYS
08/13/2002  09:00 PM           119,289 NAVENG.VXD
08/13/2002  09:00 PM           141,824 NAVENG32.DLL
08/13/2002  09:00 PM           810,032 NAVEX15.EXP
08/13/2002  09:00 PM           590,944 NAVEX15.SYS
08/13/2002  09:00 PM           778,225 NAVEX15.VXD
08/13/2002  09:00 PM           745,984 NAVEX32A.DLL
08/13/2002  09:00 PM             6,479 NCSACERT.TXT
08/13/2002  09:00 PM            64,304 SCRAUTH.DAT
08/13/2002  09:00 PM             7,468 SYMAVENG.CAT
08/13/2002  09:00 PM               936 SYMAVENG.INF
08/13/2002  09:00 PM             5,232 TECHNOTE.TXT
08/13/2002  09:00 PM               453 TINF.DAT
08/13/2002  09:00 PM               148 TINFIDX.DAT
08/13/2002  09:00 PM             1,957 TINFL.DAT
08/13/2002  09:00 PM             9,376 TSCAN1.DAT
08/13/2002  09:00 PM             1,179 TSCAN1HD.DAT
08/13/2002  09:00 PM           106,236 VIRSCAN.INF
08/13/2002  09:00 PM           730,837 VIRSCAN1.DAT
08/13/2002  09:00 PM           479,366 VIRSCAN2.DAT
08/13/2002  09:00 PM           140,880 VIRSCAN3.DAT
08/13/2002  09:00 PM           310,809 VIRSCAN4.DAT
08/13/2002  09:00 PM            70,482 VIRSCAN5.DAT
08/13/2002  09:00 PM           359,651 VIRSCAN6.DAT
08/13/2002  09:00 PM           576,547 VIRSCAN7.DAT
08/13/2002  09:00 PM           615,308 VIRSCAN8.DAT
08/13/2002  09:00 PM           508,411 VIRSCAN9.DAT
08/13/2002  09:00 PM                32 VIRSCANT.DAT
08/13/2002  09:00 PM            27,584 WHATSNEW.TXT
08/13/2002  09:00 PM               224 ZDONE.DAT
              33 File(s)      7,446,138 bytes
               3 Dir(s)               0 bytes free
 
Stone said:
Heheheh... as you can see they're not in a format like that as all!
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Indeed.
The 16-bit update looks like this:

Code: 
Archive:  0907i16.exe
warning [0907i16.exe]:  434415 extra bytes at beginning or within zipfile
  (attempting to process anyway)
 Length   Method    Size  Cmpr    Date    Time   CRC-32   Name
--------  ------  ------- ---- ---------- ----- --------  ----
   44137  Defl:X     5902  87% 09-07-2001 01:00 4a78765f  whatsnew.txt
   30913  Defl:X     6307  80% 09-07-2001 01:00 b9fd0abd  update.txt
 2080864  Defl:X   527176  75% 09-07-2001 01:00 410cd7bb  virscan.dat
  206874  Defl:X    56960  73% 09-07-2001 01:00 07f06fff  virscan2.dat
  317679  Defl:X   178600  44% 09-07-2001 01:00 66017b84  virscan6.dat
  275927  Defl:X   141789  49% 09-07-2001 01:00 99a2bccb  virscan7.dat
  284682  Defl:X    71515  75% 09-07-2001 01:00 c516be67  virscan9.dat
   70422  Defl:X    12379  82% 09-07-2001 01:00 b9b1ddd5  virscan5.dat
  106236  Defl:X    14789  86% 09-07-2001 01:00 896b564b  virscan.inf
    5232  Defl:X     1871  64% 09-07-2001 01:00 aefaf183  technote.txt
   29824  Defl:X    10580  65% 09-07-2001 01:00 b1676982  virscanm.dat
  284581  Defl:X   138190  51% 09-07-2001 01:00 deb0ccd0  navex.nlm
  388681  Defl:X   192453  51% 09-07-2001 01:00 06072bf5  navex.vxd
 1030144  Defl:X   506565  51% 09-07-2001 01:00 c23bce46  navex16.dll
  398336  Defl:X   202870  49% 09-07-2001 01:00 add06381  navex32.dll
  712784  Defl:X   301255  58% 09-07-2001 01:00 ad3b0f42  navex.exp
  347904  Defl:X   183191  47% 09-07-2001 01:00 a8e1047f  navex.sys
   50184  Defl:X    36695  27% 09-07-2001 01:00 981cb109  inscanm.dat
    6479  Defl:X     2519  61% 09-07-2001 01:00 d4207e3a  ncsacert.txt
--------          -------  ---                            -------
 6671883          2591606  61%                            19 files

Your files look like 32-bit version, I've got something similar:

Code: 
$ file DEFINST.EXE 
DEFINST.EXE: PE32 executable for MS Windows (GUI) Intel 80386 32-bit
 
bumping this thread because I am also looking for a 3x antivirus program to help when checking old hdds/floppies - obviously something with definitions around the year 2000 is more than enough... is there any chance anyone to upload an old 16bit mcafee/norton/f-prot/dr.solomon one that fits the description?

For DOS I asked years ago the author of F-PROT, he made some 2009 definitions available though his forum for the DOS version that can be used with the latest 3.16f version - I will link it here since the program was free for home users and the 2009 defs came from the author himself in a public download link.

https://www.mediafire.com/file/3t3dhcyva9v519p/F-Prot_3.16f_DOS_+_2009_DEFS.rar/file
 
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