If you have a copy of Norton AV lying around, stick the CD in. I believe that'll let you scan from the CD. However, I'm not sure about how to use updated files.
You could always go with what my second attempt would be: find a way to burn a running copy of Linux onto a CD (not via ISO, but burnable from any OS) and get Clam AV (sorry, I don't have the URL offhand) and put it all on a CD-RW. Then you can update the defs. However, booting a copy of *nix over the network would probably be a lot easier. Ross On Wed, 30 Oct 2002, Alexandros Papadopoulos wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Dear all. > > I'm looking for a way to scan existing Windows XP installations for > trojans, viruses etc. The closest match to my needs seems to be Nessus, > but I have the following reservation: > > Since the client has to be installed on the running Windows system, it > shouldn't be too hard to fool by some pre-existing trojan. I was > therefore wondering, if you know any way of running such a > vulnerability scanner from a bootable CD, thus making sure that all > benchmarks start from a clean system and results can be trusted. > > Thanks > > - -A > - -- > http://andrew.cmu.edu/~apapadop/pub_key.asc > 3DAD 8435 DB52 F17B 640F D78C 8260 0CC1 0B75 8265 > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQE9wDurgmAMwQt1gmURAo0wAJ9wzdFKbQwjnm3WEy7RendqltmubgCfUMCO > Zd7EXZoDrSrHBBoDh+LgDPY= > =wMOG > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >
