McAfee is not free, but McAfee provide some cool stuffs to be used freely, it can be directly downloaded from their site. Some of them are antivirus updater SDAT or xDAT and Antivirus Scan Engine.
Here I am going to explain how to use them as a free powerful antivirus from McAfee. I will also explain how to make update for this kind of McAfee free console antivirus.
By this kind of antivirus, we can make scan and repair and files and use some options that can be used with McAfee scan engine. Update can always be done by using the latest SDAT or xDAT files that McAfee always release them periodically.
Firstly, get the complete McAfee Shell antivirus from here (directly from Mcafee but not always avaiable) or here (from ziddu) , this file consist of McAfee shell/console scan engine for windows. Secondly, get the latest SDAT or xDat file. You can grab it from here .
Download all off those files and put each file in folders. For example Scan Engine in folder engine, xDat in folder xDat or anything else. If you download from ziddu, extract it first, because it is in zip format.
To extract the scan engine file 5400eng.exe, open DOS command Console, Start > Run > type "CMD".
Type CD "your folder"
Type 5400eng.exe /e
When your file extracted, see the result in windows explorer windows !!!
Type CD "your folder"
Type (your sDAT or xDAT file).exe /e >>> example 6473xDat.exe /e
Wait for your files completly extracted. It would be like this :
Now, find three files AVVSCAN.DAT, AVVNAMES.DAT and AVVCLEAN.DAT. Rename each files of them become SCAN.DAT, NAMES.DAT and CLEAN.DAT, then copy and paste these files to the 5400eng.exe extraction folder.
Now, you can test the Free McAfee Console Anti Virus by typing in DOS Console
> Scan.exe (press enter)
or you can double click file SCAN.EXE
you should get this....
If you get this view, means you have the McAfee Free Console Antivirus. Be Ready to use it....
