Interesting Avast Article

Hi

Scan a Windows PC For Viruses from a Ubuntu Live CD

How-To Geek Website
Just found this : http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/14434/scan-a-windows-pc-for-viruses-from-a-ubuntu-live-cd/

Zeena

 

The presupposition of thie article is that the Linux version of Avast is at least as capable of detecting and removing Windows malware as is the Windows version. Anyone know if this is true?

Pete

 

Avast Linux Edition has the same engine (and detection capabilities) as avast 4.8 for Windows.

 

will it be updated to version 5?

 

Thanks Andy.

 

Eventually, yes.

 

ok Thanks

 

And still you will have some Windows users that will not be grateful to Linux....


Thanks.

 

You don't need ubuntu to do this, just check out slax and it's security modules also dr.web livecd is awesome alternative.

 

I just use the Avira AntiVir Rescue System that is also Linux-based.

Very Easy to use.

Download program and execute. it will then ask to burn cd. If you hit "exit" you can save the ISO and burn with like ImgBurn (FREE).

http://www.free-av.com/en/tools/12/avira_antivir_rescue_system.html

 

There's a lot of recovery live CDs - most of them are Linux-based. AVG is the latest free addition[/url].

Wrt Avira - if the thing they offer for download is the same what you get w/ v10 Premium version, then this was completely unusable for me, since someone horribly botched Xorg server configuration there, so the only thing I'd get was a black screen and a message from my LCD that it can't handle such refresh rates). Someone at the Avira forums also complained that mouse is not working there.