cleaning a usb disk with viruses using the command line

ifranklin · 10-26-2010, 12:43 PM

is there any way one can clean a usb disk that has viruses using commands in the terminal in ubuntu 8.04

please if you know

thanks in advance

repo · 10-26-2010, 12:45 PM

Use any antivirus, read the man pages and scan the usb.

Kind regards

fbobraga · 10-26-2010, 12:59 PM

... you want to clean widows specific viruses in linux? Use a windows Anti-Virus to do that!

TobiSGD · 10-26-2010, 01:17 PM

What do you mean by cleaning? Do you want to only remove the infected files or do you want to totally get rid of any data/virus? If you want the first then you have to use an antivirus tool, if you want the second then just dd it with zeroes and repartition/reformat it.

repo · 10-26-2010, 01:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by fbobraga

... you want to clean widows specific viruses in linux? Use a windows Anti-Virus to do that!

Why ?
Linux versions from antivirus can do this also.
A live cd with antivirus is perfect for this.

Kind regards

jefro · 10-26-2010, 03:44 PM

Clam AV can be run from command line.