On Fri, 2007-01-05 at 13:22 -0500, Mike McMullin wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-01-05 at 12:58 +0100, Dominique Leuenberger wrote:
> > >>> On 05-01-2007 at 13:37, Rolf Masfelder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Hallo Liste,
> > 
> > Hi.
> > 
> > E: First, you asked this question in German on an English mailing list. 
> > Very bad behavior.
> > D: Du stellst eine Frage in Deutsch in einer Englischen Mailing-Liste
> > 
> > > 
> > > gibt es von SUSE (egal welchem) eine LiveCD die zum Virenscannen (von 
> > > Windows-Kisten) geeignet ist?
> > > 
> > > Nachbar hat Windows-Kiste, die 'sich seltsam verhält'. Ich will jetzt 
> > > aber kein Linux installieren nur um 'mal' anti-vir laufen zu lassen.
> > > Geht das mit einer LiveCD möglichst einfach? Anti-Vir o.ä. sollte halt 
> > > schon an Bord sein.
> > > 
> > 
> > E: The problem of LiveCDs with antiviral software is IMO the problem of 
> > actuality. As you might know,
> > a virus scanner can only detect viruses older than tht scanner's signature 
> > database.
> > 
> > D: Das Problem von LiveCDs mit VirenScanner ist IMO die aktualitaet der 
> > VirenSignaturen. Wie du ja
> >  sicherlich weisst, erkennt der Scanner nur Viren, die aelter  als er 
> > selber sind.
> > 
> > But you might have a look at http://www.chronomium.com/. That might be 
> > about what you need.
> 
>   I wonder if definition updates could not be stored on a USB device, or
> if their small enough to be held in memory.
> 

You might be surprized ;-(
Finnished downloading known virii,
and the bzipped file was about 1100MB in size...
OTOH, there are USB-sticks of 4GB.
But for a SuSE-live-dvd you already need a 4GB stick

Hans
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