Quick question about Antivirus.

[steve reilly]

On 06/09/2010 06:09 PM, Tony Pursell wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-06-09 at 22:56 +0100, Grizzly wrote:
>> On 09 June 2010 at 22:34, Peter Hillier-Brook
>> Enlightened me with this:-Re: Quick question about Antivirus.
>>
>>> On 09/06/2010 19:51, Maxime Alarie wrote:
>>>> 1- What: Malware detected on NTFS (windoze)
>>>>
>>>> 2- Want : Boot USB Live Linux and scan
>>>>
>>>> 3- Which AV? heard about clamav, and AVG for Linux. Suggestions?
>>>>
>>>> Many thanks.
>>>>
>>> Trinity Rescue Disk works for me. It's a little dated and AVG doesn't
>>> work, but it's a sound toolkit in the main.
>>
>> clamav works well
>>
>
> But will Linux AV tools clean Windows viruses off a Windows partition?
>

absolutely, and many tools to accomplish the task

i was going to copy a paste a bunch of links, but this has many live cds 
that will do the trick.  im partial to kaspersky, just because ive used 
it for years, but there are many others

http://www.techmixer.com/free-bootable-antivirus-rescue-cds-download-list/


steve