On 07/04/2010 05:22 PM, JD wrote: > On 07/04/2010 12:46 AM, Frank Murphy wrote: >> On 04/07/10 05:49, JD wrote: >>> I came across an article that mentioned some viruses >>> that can hide and move around on a booted windows >>> machine, and can evade virus scanner. >> You can also use something like Kaspersky, >> which uses Linux as the basis of it's RescueCD. >> Commercial app. >> >> or >> >> Clamav? in fedora repos >> >> ymmv >> > I yum installed clamav., and updated the databse. > > I will also try Bitdefender, suggested by Thomas Taylor. > > So far, clamav has not found anything in the mounted windows partition. > That could be good news or bad news :) :) > > AFAIK, ClamAV (the engine of.) is more efficient then all AV software except Kaspersky AV. See review here: http://cybernetnews.com/best-linux-antivirus-kaspersky-clam-norton/ To install ClamAV on Fedora or RHEL (through EPEL) (as root): yum clamav-filesystem clamav-data clamav-lib clamav-update Update AV DB (as root): freshclam HTH -- Athmane Madjoudj -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines