techrecovery | Symantec, virii, Kodak, hurrah. (Reply)

So there's this machine that Seebeck says has a virus. I can't find it. No one else can find it. I trust that it's there - we just can't detect it. Or rather, McAfee VirusScan 8.0i Enterprise can't detect it. Nor can the Stinger from August. In one last ditch effort before I format, I was going to bring my Norton Antivirus 2005 cd from home and run a scan off the cd (without installing the program). I notice you can load the latest virus defs from a floppy, so I browsed over to Symantec's web site only to see this:

End of Life for Floppy Disk Definition Sets

Beginning Thursday, August 18th, 2005, US Pacific Time, Symantec will no longer be releasing definitions sized to fit a set of standard 1.44 MB floppy disks. Due to the increasing size of virus definitions files and the supplanting of floppy disks with other technologies, we will no longer be releasing definitions in this format. Definitions will continue to be made available through all other current methods.

... crap. I don't suppose any of you downloaded the last set from August before they removed them? Yeah, if you don't really want to help me, then this post is really about the luser who downloaded a virus and stupid Symantec who stopped posting floppy defs two months before I was actually going to use them. ARG.

Oh, and damn Kodak for making you create a web site login before you can download camera software... (Stupid luser is running Win2k so the camera driver wasn't installed automatically like it was on all of our WinXP machines.)