Open Source

[Fred Claus]

Does anyone know of a good Open Source repair solution? I currently use Ultra Virus Killer for most of my work, and I've used D7x. Both are great programs but I wonder if there is an open source component?

I know there are a lot of individual developers here who have made their own programs and give it away for free. I use a couple of them now. What I was looking for was a way to get the source code so I could edit the program myself if I needed it to do something that isn't already included.

any ideas or should I just communicate with the individual developers to see if it's a feature that could be added?

 

[britechguy]

Personally, I'd just reach out to the individual developers.

In the class of software you're talking about I'm quite sure that the development trajectory has been guided by user requests over long periods of time. The individuals who created this software are far more likely to be able to integrate something new into it, if they think it fits the mission, than someone unfamiliar with the code would be.

 

[Fred Claus]

That's what I was thinking but I wasn't sure if it was simple programming or if it was more complicated than that.

 

[britechguy]

I wasn't sure if it was simple programming or if it was more complicated than that.

Nor am I. But I am sure that even if the programming itself were to be dirt simple, doing the analysis necessary to come to that conclusion by plowing through the existing code would not likely be so.

 

[River Valley Computer]

AlexCa, a member on TN has written two pieces of software that look pretty good. Windows Repair Tool and Antivirus Scan Tool. He is constantly updatimg it and they are customizable.