Virus checker on the live CD?

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 10:51:05PM +0200, Molot wrote:

> > > Not sure how it does it, but Synaptic will let me add repos.  I see the new
> > > repos in /etc/apt/sources.list, but that file and fs are RO
> > 
> > No, they aren't (they're read/write).
> 
> Somehow true, but you will loose all changes when rebooting system

Yes, this is generally how a live CD works.

> (unless your live-cd is udf in a cd-rw drive, what would made it
> possible to save changes)

This is theoretically possible, but there is no support whatsoever for doing
this with the Ubuntu live CD.

> . So, if you need to configure network connection, download and install av
> program, download virus database... Ok, doing it once is possible.
> 
> But if you need to scan 10 computers, installing it "on demand" would
> be almost useless.

I'm not arguing this point (see my other message in this thread), only
making a factual correction, since this seems to be a common
misunderstanding.

-- 
 - mdz