Antivirus for Windows that runs under Linux?

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

On 22/08/2011 7:27 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/

Okay, looks like Clamav is available through the Ubuntu software center.
When I installed and ran it, it said that there were both a program
update and a definition update available for it. It finished downloading
the definition update, but it didn't update the program. Seems a little
confused.

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.

Ah okay, I see that there's a *.deb for it, but when I run it, the
software installer says it's a "badly formed" install file or something
like that.

Yousuf Khan

you need run clamtk as root, then use the update option from the GUI
IIRC. it won't let you update the program itself without being root
(which makes sense, why should normal users be installing/updating
programs?).

On Tue, 23 Aug 2011 10:07:04 -0400, Yousuf Khan
wrote:

Ah okay, I see that there's a *.deb for it, but when I run it, the
software installer says it's a "badly formed" install file or something
like that.

I installed avg using the .sh file ...

wet http://download.avgfree.com/filedir...73.i386.sh
chmod a+x ./avg85flx-r874-a3473.i386.sh
sudo ./avg85flx-r874-a3473.i386.sh
(use q to quit the viewing of the license, etc., and just keep pressing
enter at each of the prompts, to install with the default settings).
sudo service avgd start
sudo avgupdate

Then you can use avgscan on the windows files.

Regards, Dave Hodgins