Virus scanners

Ryan450 · 09-13-2004, 06:04 PM

hey guys,

my windblows partition seems to have a virus on it.. but whenever i go to launch certain apps (namely my norton anti-virus) it crashes.. I think this is a trojan that's killing the virus scan apps.. is there anyway i can use my linux to scan the NTFS partition for windblows viruses? (i have my computer dual-booted, and the object is to run linux, scan the windows partition, fix/delete virus's, boot back into windows and keep going)

kilgoretrout · 09-14-2004, 01:32 AM

Try BitDefender:

http://www.bitdefender.com/bd/site/products.php?p_id=16

It runs from a console but can do a virus scan of windows partitions. You'll probably need the ".deb" package for yoper.

barisdemiray · 09-17-2004, 09:42 AM

Also you can try ClamWin (www.clamwin.com). If it is a malware and blocking the antivirus programs then may be it will be your luck that ClamWin isn't known so much :-) But it uses the ClamAV and is a good software anyway.

diensthunds · 09-17-2004, 12:22 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by kilgoretrout
Try BitDefender:

http://www.bitdefender.com/bd/site/products.php?p_id=16

It runs from a console but can do a virus scan of windows partitions. You'll probably need the ".deb" package for yoper.

Uh when did Yoper use .deb files? Yoper is an rpm based system, it uses apt but it's apt for rpm.
me=confused

2damncommon · 09-18-2004, 01:50 PM

Knoppix (3.4) can automatically add both F-Prot antivirus and Captive NTFS.

servnov · 09-20-2004, 08:29 PM

ok, this was a good techinque used by virus writers to keep the viruses there. Namely, kill the antivirus scanner.

Why does this happen? The virus runs a program in the background all the time ready to kill it. It starts on every boot so your screwed right? Wrong. You have to stop it so you delete its startup entry in the system registry then reboot then scan with norton and get it off.