Virus checker on the live CD?

[Tollef Fog Heen]

* Matthew Garrett 

| On Thu, 2005-05-19 at 11:47 +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
| > A friend of mine (who is also part of the crew at a LAN party) had a
| > suggestion:   Why not make it _really easy_ to boot the live CD and
| > then scan your system for viruses (using the clamav engine and some
| > clicky-friendly GUI) and optionally remove them?
| 
| Realistically, don't we need NTFS r/w support for this?

That'd be a great plus, at least, but even just being able to say
«this has been checked and is clean» or «this is unclean and must be
disinfected and should be processed further» would be a start.

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Tollef Fog Heen                                                        ,''`.
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