A virus scanner on linux for windows partition

[Dave Ihnat]

On Sat, Jul 03, 2010 at 09:49:52PM -0700, JD wrote:
>   I came across an article that mentioned some viruses that can
> hide and move around on a booted windows machine, and can evade virus
> scanner.

That actually happens often with the nastiest critters.  You commonly
simply don't boot from that machine to kill 'em--pull the drive(s) and
scan with either another Windows machine or a Linux box while the
critters are quiescent and can't defend themselves.

Cheers,
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	Dave Ihnat
	dihnat at dminet.com