Re: [Full-Disclosure] antivirus and spyware scanning

[Dave King]

I've looked at several bootable Linux cd's and haven't found one to 
remove Window's spyware.   BartPE ( http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/ ) is a 
Windows XP/2003 based bootable CD that will allow you to run Adaware.  
The one limitation seems to be that  it won't  scan the  registry on the 
Windows installation on the hard drive.  If you haven't checked it out, 
BartPE is really a cool project that basically lets you master your own 
cd  to your own liking.  It has a pretty large comunity backing and you 
who make all sorts of addins.  You can, for example, add virus scanning 
to your BartPE cd as well.

You may also be able to get Adaware, or some similar program, to run 
using WINE on a Knoppix based distro like Auditor Security Collection or 
Knoppix-STD.

Good  Luck,
Dave King
http://www.thesecure.net
Lee Leahu wrote:
Hello Everyone,
I recently came across a linux based live-cd designed for virus scanning, disaster 
recover, network analysis, etc.
http://www.inside-security.de/insert_en.html
I think it is very useful to scan a windows machine from viruses while having that 
machine booted to linux.  This pretty much ensures that you will find all the virii on 
that system.
Does anyone know of a spyware scanner that can also work from within Linux?  I 
dis-like the idea of having to boot to windows just to scan the box for spyware.  One 
could argue that the harddrive could be put into another machine and scanned there, 
but what if your in an environment where that is just not possible (making housecalls, 
no unused machine, etc)?
Also, if you know of a better solution that this, I am always interested.
Thanks
 


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