[olug] Live CD that scans for Windows viruses?

[Rob Townley]

I have noticed many of the live cds do not use updated ClamAV engines
and definitions.  Even SysRescCD is out of date.


On Tue, 08 Mar 2005 04:48:26 -0600, Craig Wolf <cjwolf at mpsomaha.org> wrote:
> I am waiting to find another infected machine so that I can test the
> Linux Defender LiveCD.
> 
> Craig Wolf
> Linux Web Server Support
> Desktop/Network Specialist
> 402-894-6283
> 
> >>> Cale Lewis <dlazlo at fbx.com> 03/09/05 5:12 PM >>>
> I've not delved into INSERT deeply enough to say 100%, but wouldn't that
> be
> more of an issue with ClamAV than INSERT itself? I thought INSERT was
> using a
> pretty stock implementation of ClamAV. If that's so, any "LiveCD" could
> well
> have the same 'quirks'.
> 
> Cale Lewis
> 
> >I used that on 3 systems, 2 of which I am 98% sure that are clean but
> it
> >found trojans on them.  The other machine I am sure was infected but it
> >found the same trojan on that.  I have no faith in insert yet...
> >
> >Craig Wolf
> >Linux Web Server Support
> >Desktop/Network Specialist
> >402-894-6283
> >
> >
> >>>> Cale Lewis <dlazlo at fbx.com> 3/9/2005 >>>
> >Try INSERT  http://www.inside-security.de/insert_en.html   It should
> >have
> >what you need.
> >
> >Cale Lewis
> >
> >
> >>Is there a live CD or toolkit that I could use to boot a dead (Windows
> >
> >>protection error) W98SE system and run a virus scan on the Windows
> >>partitions?
> >>DT
> >
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