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On 28/11/12 21:54, paul sutton wrote:
Hi I am looking into LInux based anti virus cd's and found the following site http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/linux-av-cd.html just wondered if anyone had an experience in this area and perhaps some suggestions. I would assume cd's being read only makes them more immune from the type of virius that may try and infect a flash drive type device that are generally read / write. Basically looking for something like the system rescue cd, but for anti virus. This may benefit others here too, esp those with friends who use Windows but also complain of getting viruses. Paul
Nearest thing I've used to them is something like a Live CD with ClamAV. Ideally you still need an internet connection to get updated anti-virus definitions, and if they're Windows viruses you're trying to get rid of chances are they won't run on Linux anyway.
So maybe you'd be just as well having a USB stick with a Live install of Linux and some sort of persistent storage to keep the AV definitions and programs themselves up to date.
Not sure if maybe a USB stick with a physical write protect switch on it would do the same job as a CD as presumably it boots up and mounts a ramdisk anyway.
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