clean Windows Partition Viruses by Linux ?

medya · 05-18-2006, 07:18 PM

hey imagine you have a windows fat partition and its infected by Windows Viruses...

if I scan it with a Linux Based Antivirus in Linux, will it clean its viruses ?

by the way , whats the best anti virus for linux ?

burninGpi · 05-18-2006, 07:52 PM

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Originally Posted by medya

if I scan it with a Linux Based Antivirus in Linux, will it clean its viruses ?

yes, it will. Download F-Prot, and read the documentation (I haven't needed to do this, since I almost always use Linux

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joeenet · 05-18-2006, 08:02 PM

You can also try avg for linux

It is a good Antivirus

craigevil · 05-18-2006, 08:37 PM

Download a Knoppix disk then install F-Prot.

http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/knopp...ter/hack78.pdf

medya · 05-19-2006, 06:20 AM

I installed f-prot , but I dont know how to runt it...

when I run f-prot nothing happens... and no graphical interface comes... is it command based anti virus ?

i am using Ubuntu.

craigevil · 05-19-2006, 06:35 AM

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Originally Posted by medya

I installed f-prot , but I dont know how to runt it...

when I run f-prot nothing happens... and no graphical interface comes... is it command based anti virus ?

i am using Ubuntu.

F-Prot Antivirus Support -
http://www.f-prot.com/support/unix/u.../f-prot.1.html

"F-Prot(tm) for Workstations is a powerful command-line virus scanner. "
http://packages.ubuntulinux.org/dapp...prot-installer

There is a GUI available:
XFPROT FOR LINUX
http://web.tiscali.it/sharp/xfprot/

Interesting enough:

Quote:

XFPROT is tested only on Ubuntu Linux but probably should compile
and work also on other distributions.