-=> Mocking Bob to All <=-
  (Mock, mOck, moCk, mocK)
 BW> I tried booting from a floppy to run McAfee's Scan (for DOS v2.5.3
 BW> with the 9612 data files) and the program reported: "Not enough
 BW> memory to run SCAN".  I did this on my work system which reports
 BW> 565K free memory as well as my laptop which reports 564K (the
 BW> difference being the presence of an extended BIOS area on the
 BW> laptop; my normal boot using QEMM v8.01 yields 634K free), each when
 BW> booted from the same (DOS v6.22) floppy with barebones CONFIG.SYS
 BW> and AUTOEXEC.BATs. 
theres *A* problem... a clean boot from a clean bootable disk shouldn't
be running anything from the hard drive whatsoever, only that which is
on the floppy...
now, as there isn't a whole lot required for a plain clean boot there is
no need to have a config.sys or autoexec.bat file at all..
in fact autoexec.bat files can be a bad thing to have on a clean boot
disk, the path statement within them may allow for path companion
infectors to activate while in your supposedly known clean
environment...
 BW> Q:  How much conventional memory is required to run VirusScan for
 BW> DOS? 
 BW> A:  A minimum of 490K of free coventional memory is recommended to
 BW> run VirusScan for DOS.
 BW> **********************
 BW> Is this information simply incorrect?  After all, if the author of
quite possibly theres a bug in the program... mcafee is notorious for
bugs...
 BW> this file can't properly spell 'conventional' after doing so
 BW> correctly one line above, how trustworthy can s/he be ?
don't pick nits, they may someday pick you...
 BW> I also re-read the manual, which is a .PDF file (Acrobat reader
 BW> format; the one I have is datestamped 03/15/96, viz VSCANDOC.ZIP;
 BW> circa 399290 bytes), but I found nothing which might help.
really? i found something which might help... it's called "the date"...
2.5.3 came out much later than march of 96...
... beware of quantum ducks... Quark! Quark! Quark!...
                   
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