Msg: Re: Finding W2K was Re: La Machine Est Morte, Vive La Machine!

How well do Antivirus products work, when it comes to scanning ISOs ? I know you can scan whole CDs or DVDs, and there is supposed to be the ability to scan within archives (RAR, Zip) with the better ones. If this is at all reliable, you should be able to do a thorough scan of an ISO using your AV of choice -- I use the free AVAST ! -- plus the complimentary Malwarebytes, equipped with recent malware definitions, and that should remove the remaining 5% of doubt that may go along with using these pre-packaged sources ?

   Jordan

From: Bill Troop
To: xywrite@xxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2014 11:16 AM
Subject: Re: Finding W2K was Re: La Machine Est Morte, Vive La Machine!

Kari, I totally take your extremely significant point that you can
have no way of knowing what went into someone's pre-packaged ISO.
That is an enormous risk and I really don't know why I am blithely
willing to take it. But I and others have found the available ISOs
easier to work with. I'm willing to bet that Harry's SCSI driver
problem would go away if he tried installing from the ISO I mentioned.

At 22/07/2014 16:19, you wrote:
>Bill,
>
>ISOs are a great way to speed up processing when working with
>virtual machines, but there is nothing wrong with genuine CDs, and
>they do work as is. That said, it is a good idea to make an ISO out
>of a CD for speeding things up. I have installed my VBox W2K from a
>CD and added the MS updates the normal way. There is nothing very
>special about virtual machines, one should deal with them just as if
>they were the real thing. The virtual machine is your new computer,
>it should be set up just like one. Check the (virtual) hardware,
>configure it, if necessary, and have suitable drivers ready for it
>when installing. Nothing more, nothing less.
>
>I do not find a prepackaged ISO very appealing. You do not know
>exactly how they have been built.
>
>Best regards,
>
>Kari Eveli
>LEXITEC Book Publishing (Finland)
>lexitec@xxxxxxxx
>
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>
>22.7.2014 16:13, Bill Troop wrote:
>>In my experience, everyone who has tried to install a VM OS from a
>>CD has come close to success but ultimately failed. What works --
>>easily -- are the commonly available ISOs. I am inclined to think
>>that the SCSI issue is a red herring that will disappear when you
>>go to an ISO.
>