[gentoo-user] Re: Boot Gentoo to clean windows

2008-03-30 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Saturday 29 March 2008, Stroller wrote: Thanks! I'll look into PING. The documentation on PING's homepage   seems a little scanty, but I'm sure a Google will be a bit more   forthcoming. It's very easy to use, I found a pdf somewhere that described it in few pages. There are a couple of

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Boot Gentoo to clean windows

2008-03-30 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Saturday 29 March 2008, 19:53, Stroller wrote: One of my biggest bugbears against reinstalling is drivers. Dell Sony are wonderful! You just enter the tag or model number on their website and the correct drivers are listed. Advent - and here, in the UK, other brands of computer which are

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Boot Gentoo to clean windows

2008-03-29 Thread Stroller
On 28 Mar 2008, at 19:13, Francesco Talamona wrote: On Friday 28 March 2008, Stroller wrote: I deal with h0sed Windows installations for my customers all the time. I regularly boot a Knoppix CD and copy the whole C: drive to a portable disk so that I have a complete backup. I find it

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Boot Gentoo to clean windows

2008-03-29 Thread Stroller
On 28 Mar 2008, at 16:43, 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote: Stroller wrote: snip important, informative stuff Be aware that sometimes Windows isn't cleanly fixable. Although I try to avoid it until I've exhausted avenues for a clean repair, sometimes the best thing to do is simply to back-up reinstall.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Boot Gentoo to clean windows

2008-03-28 Thread Mick
On 28/03/2008, 7v5w7go9ub0o [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Florian Philipp wrote: snip FWIW, AntiVir, Bitdefender, and F-Prot run quite well on Linux, and each has BOTH Linux and Windows Trojan and virus signatures. So you can install these and scan your windows box, and then scan your Linux

[gentoo-user] Re: Boot Gentoo to clean windows

2008-03-28 Thread 7v5w7go9ub0o
Mick wrote: On 28/03/2008, 7v5w7go9ub0o [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anti-Virus on Linux. No. (presuming that you don't run as root, and have lots of unprivileged users for individual applications.) Anti-Malware on Linux. Yes. (Malware gets to the box via spoofed or hacked software

[gentoo-user] Re: Boot Gentoo to clean windows

2008-03-28 Thread 7v5w7go9ub0o
Stroller wrote: snip important, informative stuff Be aware that sometimes Windows isn't cleanly fixable. Although I try to avoid it until I've exhausted avenues for a clean repair, sometimes the best thing to do is simply to back-up reinstall. Think this is a great write up. The last

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Boot Gentoo to clean windows

2008-03-28 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 28 March 2008, 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote: IMHO, Linux and MAC are the next frontier for malware, and -SADLY- AntiMalware signature and heuristic techniques are one thing we can learn about from Windows :-( True, but with one *huge* difference: If something like ActiveX were to be unleashed

[gentoo-user] Re: Boot Gentoo to clean windows

2008-03-28 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Friday 28 March 2008, Stroller wrote: I deal with h0sed Windows installations for my customers all the   time. I regularly boot a Knoppix CD and copy the whole C: drive to a   portable disk so that I have a complete backup. I find it reassuring to use Linux for this purpose because I feel

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Boot Gentoo to clean windows

2008-03-27 Thread Florian Philipp
On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 22:13 -0400, 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote: Mikie wrote: Does anyone know of a product (hopefully free) that can clean a Windows PC while booted on Gentoo? I guess I need a good malware tool that runs on Linux and cleans NTFS volumes. Thanks. FWIW, AntiVir,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Boot Gentoo to clean windows

2008-03-27 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Donnerstag, 27. März 2008 schrieb Florian Philipp: Is it really necessary to run an anti-virus on linux? I just want to hear some opinions on that topic because I thought security fixes for your software are the way to go for fighting virae on linux. The main purpose is to remove virae

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Boot Gentoo to clean windows

2008-03-27 Thread Conway S. Smith
On Thu, 27 Mar 2008 19:18:57 +0100 Dirk Heinrichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Donnerstag, 27. März 2008 schrieb Florian Philipp: Is it really necessary to run an anti-virus on linux? I just want to hear some opinions on that topic because I thought security fixes for your software are the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Boot Gentoo to clean windows

2008-03-27 Thread Dale
Florian Philipp wrote: This is getting OT but I still want to ask: Is it really necessary to run an anti-virus on linux? I just want to hear some opinions on that topic because I thought security fixes for your software are the way to go for fighting virae on linux. I have not ran a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Boot Gentoo to clean windows

2008-03-27 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 27 March 2008, Dale wrote: Florian Philipp wrote: This is getting OT but I still want to ask: Is it really necessary to run an anti-virus on linux? I just want to hear some opinions on that topic because I thought security fixes for your software are the way to go for fighting

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Boot Gentoo to clean windows

2008-03-27 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Thursday 27 March 2008, Dale wrote: Florian Philipp wrote: This is getting OT but I still want to ask: Is it really necessary to run an anti-virus on linux? I just want to hear some opinions on that topic because I thought security fixes for your software are

[gentoo-user] Re: Boot Gentoo to clean windows

2008-03-27 Thread 7v5w7go9ub0o
Florian Philipp wrote: snip FWIW, AntiVir, Bitdefender, and F-Prot run quite well on Linux, and each has BOTH Linux and Windows Trojan and virus signatures. So you can install these and scan your windows box, and then scan your Linux box/downloads for malware (e.g. openoffice files, media

[gentoo-user] Re: Boot Gentoo to clean windows

2008-03-26 Thread 7v5w7go9ub0o
Mikie wrote: Does anyone know of a product (hopefully free) that can clean a Windows PC while booted on Gentoo? I guess I need a good malware tool that runs on Linux and cleans NTFS volumes. Thanks. FWIW, AntiVir, Bitdefender, and F-Prot run quite well on Linux, and each has BOTH Linux and