Virus checker on the live CD?

[Tollef Fog Heen]

* 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.

Estimated at 1.5MB uncompressed.  (+ the size of a GUI frontend, I
don't have the numbers for those here.)  The biggest part of the size
is the clamav-data package, ticking in at close to 1.3MB.

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Tollef Fog Heen                                                        ,''`.
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