From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JewWU-000780-Pk for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 27 Mar 2008 18:08:23 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 890BBE0A83; Thu, 27 Mar 2008 18:08:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from out3.smtp.messagingengine.com (out3.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.27]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DB68E0A83 for ; Thu, 27 Mar 2008 18:08:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from compute1.internal (compute1.internal [10.202.2.41]) by out1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40F6ADEF70; Thu, 27 Mar 2008 14:08:20 -0400 (EDT) Received: from heartbeat2.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.161]) by compute1.internal (MEProxy); Thu, 27 Mar 2008 14:08:20 -0400 X-Sasl-enc: ufbRB+4qo+VZAU+9O2XgrPqiehFJ6aiyfG6HQzpBUL4b 1206641299 Received: from [10.129.146.71] (unknown [212.23.103.36]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 0CC5E33BA9 for ; Thu, 27 Mar 2008 14:08:18 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Boot Gentoo to clean windows From: Florian Philipp To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <47EB02BE.9020707@gmail.com> References: <8978E31831121041B2E97EBC0BF8503306AAD3B5@EXVS01.hostedexchange.com> <47EB02BE.9020707@gmail.com> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-U9dbS9uVlEoqRhjl1/es" Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 19:07:54 +0100 Message-Id: <1206641274.30987.110.camel@NOTE_GENTOO64.PHHEIMNETZ> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.12.3 X-Archives-Salt: 8d0d669b-2b68-4a54-a8a2-e29b339177da X-Archives-Hash: d763a4ce90043ce35d48764dc50b8a1c --=-U9dbS9uVlEoqRhjl1/es Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 22:13 -0400, 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote: > Mikie wrote: > > Does anyone know of a product (hopefully free) that can clean a Windows > > PC while booted on Gentoo? > >=20 > > I guess I need a good malware tool that runs on Linux and cleans NTFS > > volumes. > >=20 > > Thanks. >=20 > FWIW, AntiVir, Bitdefender, and F-Prot run quite well on Linux, and each=20 > has BOTH Linux and Windows Trojan and virus signatures. So you can=20 > install these and scan your windows box, and then scan your Linux=20 > box/downloads for malware (e.g. openoffice files, media files, etc.). >=20 > Add Dazuko, and you can get real-time scanning of your Linux box while=20 > downloading/compiling software. This is getting OT but I still want to ask: Is it really necessary to run an anti-virus on linux? I just want to hear some opinions on that topic because I thought security fixes for your software are the way to go for fighting virae on linux. --=-U9dbS9uVlEoqRhjl1/es Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBH6+J6qs4uOUlOuU8RAlb2AJ49c3zVp6DfiPyE0ReRltzTVaiPYACeLpbe dMWQ23BWRf96oMwgChmMots= =u630 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-U9dbS9uVlEoqRhjl1/es-- -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list