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An anti-virus scan running on GNU/Linux, cleansing a Windows partition

Author:  btiffin [ Sun Feb 06, 2011 3:46 am ]
Post subject:  An anti-virus scan running on GNU/Linux, cleansing a Windows partition

Is there such a thing?
I'm sitting here waiting for a ClamWin, Windows 7 pass. Boring. I'd like to still be working in Fedora.

If there isn't a GNU/Linux suite, umm, why not? I think that's the kind of tool that could make someone famous.

Wishfully thinking that someone else will do the job. Wink

Cheers

Author:  Tony [ Sun Feb 06, 2011 3:40 pm ]
Post subject:  RE:An anti-virus scan running on GNU/Linux, cleansing a Windows partition

Neat idea, but it sounds like too small of a user demographic for any commercial vendors to pursue such project.

Author:  OREO Speedwagon [ Mon Mar 07, 2011 1:12 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: An anti-virus scan running on GNU/Linux, cleansing a Windows partition

In theory this can be done on Fedora by mounting your Windows partition and scanning all of it with clamav (clamscan at the terminal) however it mostly comes up with false positives for me. 3:

Author:  md [ Tue Mar 08, 2011 10:22 am ]
Post subject:  RE:An anti-virus scan running on GNU/Linux, cleansing a Windows partition

There are a bunch of tutorials for setting up clamav to automatically scan samba shares from linux. I haven't seen anything about scanning native windows partitions though.


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