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btiffin

Sun Feb 06, 2011 3:46 am


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

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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.  ;-)

Cheers


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Tony

Sun Feb 06, 2011 3:40 pm


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

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


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OREO Speedwagon

Mon Mar 07, 2011 1:12 pm


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

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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:


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md

Tue Mar 08, 2011 10:22 am


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

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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.