Virus checker on the live CD?

[Carl Karsten]

Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
 > * Matthew Garrett
 >
 > | On Thu, 2005-05-19 at 11:47 +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
 > | > A friend of mine (who is also part of the crew at a LAN party) had a
 > | > suggestion:   Why not make it _really easy_ to boot the live CD and
 > | > then scan your system for viruses (using the clamav engine and some
 > | > clicky-friendly GUI) and optionally remove them?
 > |
 > | Realistically, don't we need NTFS r/w support for this?
 >
 > That'd be a great plus, at least, but even just being able to say
 > «this has been checked and is clean» or «this is unclean and must be
 > disinfected and should be processed further» would be a start.

Indeed.  I think being alerted to a virus is most important, getting info about 
2nd, and doing something about it 3rd.

Also, it is "easy enough" for someone to add the needed repositories and install 
Captive if needed.  Personally, I would prefer that the default behavior of a 
virus scanner it to just identify and inform, not try and do anything about it.

I am assuming that "all modern scanners" will pull an updated fingerprint file?

Carl Karsten