Tags Tags

Antivirus for Windows that runs under Linux?

August 22nd, 2011 - 07:04 pm ET by Yousuf Khan | Report spam
Help Create a new topic
Thinking ahead, if I ever get a virus infection in Windows that's so
severe that I can't get back into it, I'd like to be able to just boot
into my Linux and scan the Windows drives from it. Are there any
antivirus software that run from within Linux?

I know that I can always just run one of those standalone bootable
antivirus rescue CD's (and they all run in a version of IsoLinux), but
I'd like to keep my options available. I would probably like to continue
to do other work in Linux while the boring scan is going on, and you
can't really do that with the standalone rescue CD's.

Yousuf Khan
email Follow the discussionReplies 14 repliesReplies Make a reply

Similar topics

Replies

#1 Dr. Deb
August 22nd, 2011 - 07:25 pm ET | Report spam
Having run Linux for so long, I do not know if they are still available.
But, way back in the Stone Age, we used to run the Antivirus from a floppy
disk. I would assume you could keep a bootable CD with the program on it
and then boot off it.

Deb


Yousuf Khan wrote:

Thinking ahead, if I ever get a virus infection in Windows that's so
severe that I can't get back into it, I'd like to be able to just boot
into my Linux and scan the Windows drives from it. Are there any
antivirus software that run from within Linux?

I know that I can always just run one of those standalone bootable
antivirus rescue CD's (and they all run in a version of IsoLinux), but
I'd like to keep my options available. I would probably like to continue
to do other work in Linux while the boring scan is going on, and you
can't really do that with the standalone rescue CD's.

Yousuf Khan
Replies Reply to this message
#2 David W. Hodgins
August 22nd, 2011 - 07:27 pm ET | Report spam
On Mon, 22 Aug 2011 19:04:06 -0400, Yousuf Khan wrote:

into my Linux and scan the Windows drives from it. Are there any
antivirus software that run from within Linux?



Yes. Clamav, and Avg. ClamAv is provided by most distributions, or you
can download it from
http://www.clamav.net/lang/en/download/

For Avg, it's available at
http://free.avg.com/us-en/download.prd-alf

They are both designed to catch m$ viruses, but run under linux.

Regards, Dave Hodgins

Change nomail.afraid.org to ody.ca to reply by email.
(nomail.afraid.org has been set up specifically for
use in usenet. Feel free to use it yourself.)
Replies Reply to this message
#3 philo
August 22nd, 2011 - 07:30 pm ET | Report spam
On 08/22/2011 06:27 PM, David W. Hodgins wrote:
On Mon, 22 Aug 2011 19:04:06 -0400, Yousuf Khan
wrote:

into my Linux and scan the Windows drives from it. Are there any
antivirus software that run from within Linux?



Yes. Clamav, and Avg. ClamAv is provided by most distributions, or you
can download it from
http://www.clamav.net/lang/en/download/

For Avg, it's available at
http://free.avg.com/us-en/download.prd-alf

They are both designed to catch m$ viruses, but run under linux.

Regards, Dave Hodgins






Yep...good answer

just be sure the virus checker is updated before you use it
Replies Reply to this message
#4 Norman Peelman
August 22nd, 2011 - 07:32 pm ET | Report spam
On 08/22/2011 07:04 PM, Yousuf Khan wrote:
Thinking ahead, if I ever get a virus infection in Windows that's so
severe that I can't get back into it, I'd like to be able to just boot
into my Linux and scan the Windows drives from it. Are there any
antivirus software that run from within Linux?

I know that I can always just run one of those standalone bootable
antivirus rescue CD's (and they all run in a version of IsoLinux), but
I'd like to keep my options available. I would probably like to continue
to do other work in Linux while the boring scan is going on, and you
can't really do that with the standalone rescue CD's.

Yousuf Khan



http://www.avg.com/us-en/avg-rescue-cd


Norman
Registered Linux user #461062
AMD64X2 6400+ Ubuntu 10.04 64bit
Replies Reply to this message
#5 Yousuf Khan
August 23rd, 2011 - 01:18 am ET | Report spam
On 08/22/2011 07:32 PM, Norman Peelman wrote:
On 08/22/2011 07:04 PM, Yousuf Khan wrote:
Thinking ahead, if I ever get a virus infection in Windows that's so
severe that I can't get back into it, I'd like to be able to just boot
into my Linux and scan the Windows drives from it. Are there any
antivirus software that run from within Linux?

I know that I can always just run one of those standalone bootable
antivirus rescue CD's (and they all run in a version of IsoLinux), but
I'd like to keep my options available. I would probably like to continue
to do other work in Linux while the boring scan is going on, and you
can't really do that with the standalone rescue CD's.

Yousuf Khan



http://www.avg.com/us-en/avg-rescue-cd



Thanks, but that's what I was looking for an alternative to, if you read
my original message.

Yousuf Khan
Replies Reply to this message
Help Create a new topicNext page Replies Make a reply
Search Make your own search