Virus checker on the live CD?

[Matthew Garrett]

On Thu, 2005-05-19 at 14:12 +0300, Mircea MITU wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-05-19 at 11:39 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > 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?
> > 
> 
> For NTFS r/w support we can use Captive.

No, because we can't ship the NTFS driver. One possible workaround would
be to use the Linux NTFS driver to find a copy on the user's drive and
then use that, but you'd want to get legal advice first.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org