A virus scanner on linux for windows partition

JD jd1008 at gmail.com
Sun Jul 4 16:22:29 UTC 2010


  On 07/04/2010 12:46 AM, Frank Murphy wrote:
> On 04/07/10 05:49, 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.
> You can also use something like Kaspersky,
> which uses Linux as the basis of it's RescueCD.
> Commercial app.
>
> or
>
> Clamav? in fedora repos
>
> ymmv
>
I yum  installed clamav., and updated the databse.

I will also  try Bitdefender, suggested by Thomas Taylor.

So far, clamav has not found anything in the mounted windows partition.
That could be good news or bad news :) :)




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