[ale] Antivirus LiveCD?

[James P. Kinney III]

On Wed, 2004-05-26 at 11:15, Charles Shapiro wrote:
> James Kinney, I concur. I forwarded your email on to a buddy of mine
> who's an MCSE. His knoppix CD saved his butt at least once before. Glad
> I don't have to deal with that stuff.

'Tis a pain in the butt. It is also the best advertising to change
operating systems! "See, Mr/Mrs Manager, if you were running a nice,
stable Linux operating system, your office staff would no longer be
having these issues and you would no longer be having these expenses."
> 
> Props for a great solution.
Today, it failed me. The 3.4 version of Knoppix could read the NTFS
partition but no matter what I did, it couldn't write it. Since no
writes were allowed, no bugs were deleted. So I had to do the Windows
reboot/scan/reboot/scan cycle _way_ too many times.

The mount showed as "rw" but root could not create nor delete a file.
I'll need to do some docs digging, but I'm assuming that the 'write'
option was not part of the NTFS module.

What I am seeing as far as bugs and attack patterns is the massive
proliferation of web-bugs/spy-ware that opens a back door for
communication. Now there is a hole that invites other, less friendly
bugs in. So the AV software goes dark, new crap shows up, box fails.

So far, it looks like random happenstance. I don't think that there is a
concerted effort to collaborate. I sure hope the bad guy coders are not
that organized.

> 
> -- CHS
> On Wed, 2004-05-26 at 11:02, james at sumners.ath.cx wrote:
> > What and astoundingly easy idea. I was thinking about a Knoppix version
> > that integrates ClamAV and the Captive NTFS system but this idea is a
> > lot simpler. Does it pick up all the newer viruses?
> <<SNIP>>
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