Virus checker on the live CD?

[Tollef Fog Heen]

* Carl Karsten 

| Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
|
| > 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.
| 
| Does it make sense to have 'any' of the virus db on the CD, as opposed
| to always getting it from an outside source, either the Net or another
| media (floppy, USB thumb drive, etc.)?

I'm unsure, it would make a fair bit of sense a month after release.
It would make very little sense a year later.  Given that the file
system the live cd runs from is writable, just running freshclam (or
an equivalent) would probably be just as useful.

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Tollef Fog Heen                                                        ,''`.
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