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From: karthikbalaguru on 25 Dec 2009 02:53
Hi,
Is there a virus scanner that can scan the windows
from linux environment ?

Hope the virus scanners and security related tools
are available for free.

Thx in advans,
Karthik Balaguru
From: philo on 25 Dec 2009 09:19
karthikbalaguru wrote:
> Hi,
> Is there a virus scanner that can scan the windows
> from linux environment ?
>
> Hope the virus scanners and security related tools
> are available for free.
>
> Thx in advans,
> Karthik Balaguru

http://www.clamav.net/
From: Nico Kadel-Garcia on 25 Dec 2009 10:39
On Dec 25, 9:19 am, philo <ph...(a)privacy.invalid> wrote:
> karthikbalaguru wrote:
> > Hi,
> > Is there a virus scanner that can scan the windows
> > from linux environment ?
>
> > Hope the virus scanners and security related tools
> > are available for free.
>
> > Thx in advans,
> > Karthik Balaguru
>
> http://www.clamav.net/

ClamAV is a very useful tool, but it is *not* as powerful nor as up-to-
date as a full-blown commercial virus scanner. Its big usefulness is
that it can operate from a much safer, unlikely-to-already-be-infected
environment, and its very useful to run as an analysis tool for saved
Windows files on a filesaver. It also needs frequent updating
(undstandably!)
From: G on 25 Dec 2009 15:41
In article <c6af182c-2b00-4f9a-bcf9-fc3509251558
@d4g2000pra.googlegroups.com>, karthikbalaguru79(a)gmail.com says...
>
> Hi,
> Is there a virus scanner that can scan the windows
> from linux environment ?
>
> Hope the virus scanners and security related tools
> are available for free.
>
> Thx in advans,
> Karthik Balaguru

Avira and Kaspersky both have free options available at their websites.
You just download the program and run it. It will automatically burn a
Linux distro with AV scanner to a CD. Just reboot from the CD any you're
in the new system.
From: karthikbalaguru on 26 Dec 2009 00:43
On Dec 25, 7:19 pm, philo <ph...(a)privacy.invalid> wrote:
> karthikbalaguru wrote:
> > Hi,
> > Is there a virus scanner that can scan the windows
> > from linux environment ?
>
> > Hope the virus scanners and security related tools
> > are available for free.
>
> > Thx in advans,
> > Karthik Balaguru
>
> http://www.clamav.net/

Thx for your response.
clamnav looks interesting.

I checked out clamnav. It has
on-access scanning feature.
But, does it have the feature of
scanning a Windows Machine
from a Linux Machine in Network ?

Thx in advans,
Karthik Balaguru
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