[SGVLUG] scanning windows systems for viruses from live-CD's

[Robert Leyva]

What about AVG ?

I put it on my wife's PC after group members suggested it, and it seems to
be working fine.

Perhaps things like AVG and clamscan before booting the Penguin?


>
>
> "it had just so happened..." that earlier in the day I downloaded the
> "embedded" Damn Small Linux (DSL, not to be confused with broadband)
> which will actually boot and run as a process within windows or linux
> (it uses qemu to create an environment to run within windows)  the
> download is 50 meg (though compressed) which makes it small enough to
> load onto usb memory stick/pen drives.  It may even be possible to
> create a boot-from-usb-device version that would create his "live-cd"
> environment, but I didn't see clamav or similar in the synaptic (apt)
> installer.
>
>


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Robert Leyva
mrflash818 at geophile.net