[Leaplist] Linux Antivirus for windows drives?

[patrick]

Chris wrote:
> Help...
> 
> 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.
> 
> Anyone seen a live Linux CD that will do a decent virus scan on
> a Windows partition?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Chris

My first recourse is to turn off the Restore function in the control
panel, System window, IF you can get there, then reboot, run all the
standard cleaners, AVG, SpybotS&D, Adaware, Hijackthis, shootthemessenger.

Then reboot.  Then, if running clean, restore gets turned on again.

I much prefer to take this opportunity in the person's life to put Mepis
in, and wipe out the horrid "evil spawn from Redmond" that wastes so
much precious time in the world!

http://TheOpenCD.org runs in windoze and has ClamAV. If you can get it
to boot up in Windoze.

You can plug any drive into a channel, even external drive bay or
'sled', on a Firewire or USB connection, on a Linux box, mount it, and
run the ClamAV, usually not installed in a Linux distro, but sitting
there on the repository servers for a fast grab.

Or, boot the box with a live CDrom that contains the ClamAV and other
repair software.

http://livecdlist.com has the search engine and you can sort for just
the distros created for exactly this function!

There are tons of viable options.  I offer them in friendship to my
friends and neighbors, strangers on the street, and accept them into my
inner circle if they convert.

Those who don't convert are banished to absolute servitude to the
minions of the Evil Empire forever!  They will be haunted by the
multiple ghosts and exploits of the WGA and the secret 80 denied
protections and upgrades, introduced by the Restore option from the
re-install CDroms.  No real sources, yet, on what weirdness a restore
function does to the future protections of updates!

Another of 16,999 reasons to switch that user to carefree Linux.  Try
the mepis  http://www.mepis.org