[Leaplist] Linux Antivirus for windows drives?

[Danny W. Burdick]

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Damien McKenna wrote:
> On Sep 28, 2007, at 8:47 AM, Chris wrote:
>> I've got a friend's PC that is so virused it won't run anything -
>> even in "safe" mode. The hardware checks out fine on a Linux
>> LiveCD. I'd like to try to de-virus his machine using Linux, because
>> my only winbox is down right now, or I'd just dump his drive in
>> that and scan it.
>
> Something to try, see if you can find a Windows virus checker that can 
> run as either a boot disk or CD, back in the day most of the main ones 
> used to work this way.  That said, I'm not aware of any Linux-based 
> ones.  You might try seeing if any live CDs have ClamAV?
>
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