On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 09:58, rob wrote: > Greetings, > > Well here we are in Auckland after a long rainy, windy journey. It's > nowhere near as nice as Christchurch. > > I have Ubuntu on my laptop and use it everyday on the Internet. I have > no virus protection loaded yet and I am surprised to have gotten away > with it for so long. A word of mouth recommendation for a suitable virus > scanner would be valuable. For a Linux file-system, none. imho, atm anyway, it's not necessary. If you need your paranoia comforted there is:- http://www.f-prot.com/products/
If you want to be able to clean the NTFS partition from within Linux you will need to arrange for the NTFS to be writable. Use the 'Captive' system. http://www.jankratochvil.net/project/captive/ Note that while safe, this solution is not particularly fast. > I can access my NTFS partition via the command line but is there a way > to display it automatically in Computer/Disks like the floppy and CD. I > was unable to find these directories (Computer and Disk) in the > directory tree. Enter a line for it into /etc/fstab Automount it on start-up if you so wish. man mount man 5 fstab for all the gore. -- Sincerely etc., Christopher Sawtell
