full-disclosure - antivirus and spyware scanning

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Message-ID: <20040615094533.63a8f8f6@tiger.ricis.com>
From: lee at ricis.com (Lee Leahu)
Subject: antivirus and spyware scanning

Hello Everyone,

I recently came across a linux based live-cd designed for virus scanning, disaster recover, network analysis, etc.

http://www.inside-security.de/insert_en.html

I think it is very useful to scan a windows machine from viruses while having that machine booted to linux.  This pretty much ensures that you will find all the virii on that system.

Does anyone know of a spyware scanner that can also work from within Linux?  I dis-like the idea of having to boot to windows just to scan the box for spyware.  One could argue that the harddrive could be put into another machine and scanned there, but what if your in an environment where that is just not possible (making housecalls, no unused machine, etc)?

Also, if you know of a better solution that this, I am always interested.

Thanks

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