De-virus USB after Windows?

[Bart Silverstrim]

Sandy Harris wrote:
> I have a Linux box at home, but I'm a teacher and the classroom machines
> are poorly set up XP boxes where students have administrator access.
> Some, but not all, have anti-virus software but without Internet, so it is
> not updated. I cannot fix them; not my job and it is XP in Chinese.
> 
> My larger USB sticks have no read-only switch. Almost every time I
> use one for a class, it gets various Windows virus files. .exe, .inf
> and .com extensions. I delete these from Linux when I get home.
> 
> Has anyone got a tool for this? Not a hard script to write, but it
> seemed worth asking first.

Try searching for ClamAV. It's an antivirus kind of geared for email 
servers, but you can run "clamscan" at the command line to search for 
malware and remove the buggers.