> On Aug 5, 2024, at 8:52 PM, Sean McCune via Freedos-devel > <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'll have to research it. The security guy in me just gets the heebie-jeebies > over downloading random executable blobs from random (to me) websites and > running them... even on a 16 year old netbook running FreeDOS that isn't a > production machine for me. :-) > > Thanks, > > McC > I know the feeling. :-)
You could always run the files through those online virus scanners like https://www.virustotal.com/gui/home/upload <https://www.virustotal.com/gui/home/upload> However, I don’t know how reliable they are at finding DOS viruses. On the plus side, DOS is to small a target nowadays. Long ago, the bad guys moved from just causing trouble to trying to make money. There “probably" has been a new DOS virus in 25+ years. But, it only takes one jerk. A long long time ago, on an operating system far far away…. My mom picked up a virus somewhere online. She did not visit many websites. Mostly the main shopping sites like Amazon, Walmart, etc. However, nearly all of her time online was at Facebook and playing their games. I suspect the later as the infection vector. Being the near to dozenth time I had to clean her XP machine, it was getting very tiresome. If I recall correctly, the machine was already running the last ditch solution of using Microsoft Steady State. But, got infected anyhow. So, I set about completely wiping her drive. Booting from the vendor CD and reinstalling the OS. But to my surprise while still setting up the new install, the malware came back. As it turned out, it had migrated onto an attached USB hard drive. Simply reconnecting that drive to her computer caused reinfection. I had to hook that USB drive up to a linux box and wipe it as well. Then, go back an redo her machine again. Ugh. She was good for a couple more months until she got infected by something else. By then I had had it. Enough was enough! I went out an bought her a top of the line iMac. She used that machine about a decade. Not one virus. Never a single OS reinstall. After she learned how to use the new OS, we got well over 10 years of computing bliss from that machine. We still have that machine. It is over 15 years old and works fine. Anyhow, the main reason she never got a single virus on that Mac in a decade was market share. With the overwhelming vast majority of desktops running Windows, it simply was not worth the time and effort for the bad guys to target the Mac. For the few viruses that were out there that could infect her Mac, by the time she might have encountered one, her computer had already been patched and was immune. Viruses and malware writers suck. :-) Jerome > > On 8/5/24 8:02 PM, Louis Santillan via Freedos-devel wrote: >> You can sometimes find drivers for later RealTek NICs (1GbE especially) in >> vendor packaging from HP, Dell, IBM/Lenovo. You'll be surprised what >> laptops, later desktops, thin clients have drivers. ParkyTowers has a lot >> of links and info about hardware and drivers that can be relevant for later >> hardware (https://www.parkytowers.me.uk/thin/ >> <https://www.parkytowers.me.uk/thin/>). >> >> On Mon, Aug 5, 2024 at 8:59 AM Ralf Quint via Freedos-devel >> <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> On 8/4/2024 2:32 PM, Sean McCune via Freedos-devel wrote: >> > Hi Jerome, >> > >> > Well, I tried that and it gave: >> > >> > "ERROR: AR813x/AR815x not found on slot 0xFF >> > >> > Driver Init Error" >> > >> > I dug up the old info I had researched a few months ago on this laptop >> > >> > (I had given up on this laptop's networking already) and this is an: >> > >> > >> > "Acer Aspire One ZG5, model number A0A 150 1570" - the sticker on bottom >> > >> > >> > I found a support manual at: >> > >> > https://www.s-manuals.com/pdf/notebook/acer/acer_aspire_one_aoa150_service_guide.pdf >> > >> > <https://www.s-manuals.com/pdf/notebook/acer/acer_aspire_one_aoa150_service_guide.pdf> >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > and it sayeth the LAN chip is the Realtek RTL8102EL. >> > >> > The packetdriversdos.net <http://packetdriversdos.net/> site has an >> > RTEODI.COM <http://rteodi.com/> which lists the 8102E >> > but not >> > >> > the 8102EL. But I'm going to try it. I've never messed with ODI on >> > FreeDOS, so >> > >> > this will be yet another fun new bit of trauma to learn from. :-) >> >> Well, RealTek is certainly completely different from Atheros. And All >> RTL81xx chips should run off the same drivers,. RealTek still used to >> have all their drivers for all chips and all OS on their web site, last >> time I had to check for something... >> >> Just checked again and they seemed to have cleaned up a little bit as >> well, the only Fast Ethernet (100TX) chip they still have files for is >> the RTL8139, they also have a DOS disgnostic program, if that gives you >> reasonable output, the DOS driver for it should work as well... >> >> https://www.realtek.com/Download/List?cate_id=587&menu_id=297 >> <https://www.realtek.com/Download/List?cate_id=587&menu_id=297> >> >> >> Ralf >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Freedos-devel mailing list >> [email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]> >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel >> <https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Freedos-devel mailing list >> [email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]> >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel >> <https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel> > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
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