Yes, I do understand that most new computer users will never had the experience of running in DOS. Thats too bad too since there is alot of things you can do in dos that is still faster, and more stable than in Windows.
Yes, running in safe-mode would be better than running in real mode, but DOS mode, for those who can still run in DOS would be better than both.
But if your runing XP, then you would have to use safe mode.
Just for amusement purposes, I ran a DOS A/V scanner and a Windows A/V scanner, not a scientific with controlled variables either, test, just to see how much difference scanning took.
I used F-prot, a DOS scanner, and Free A/V Persion Edition 6 for Windows.
I scanned 14,743 files, I ran the DOS scanner from a Windows DOS prompt even.
It took 2:02 minutes for the DOS scanner, and over 4 minutes for the Windows scanner to perform the same tests.
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