Virus checker on the live CD?

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 11:47:10AM +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?
> 
> For computer parties where a lot of people who have never been exposed
> to Linux attend, this is a great way to get them to at least boot the
> live cd and hopefully play around with it a bit.

Sounds nice to me, assuming that clamav doesn't increase the size of the
filesystem significantly.

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 - mdz