[Clamav-users] live CD

[Jan-Pieter Cornet]

I'm running into the situation, quite regularly lately, where I have to do a
virus scan of a machine that has either out-dated or no anti-virus software.
Obviously, just installing some anti-virus software and hoping that will
clean up everything afterwards is not a good solution.
Therefore, I'm looking at live CD's containing clamav that I can use, along
with the ntfs-3g drivers. They work, but they are all out of date. Knoppix
hasn't been updated in over a year, and the more recent INSERT is only at
version 0.90. While I can update the virus definitions on both (usually), I
want to run the latest version of the scan engine too for maximum
effectiveness.

I haven't got experience with this myself, but a colleague of mine installed
the ubuntu live CD on a USB memory stick, which then has the ability to
update itself.

google gave me this:
http://www.debuntu.org/how-to-install-ubuntu-linux-on-usb-bar

[Brandon Perry]

I have made a LiveCD like the one you are talking about for the shop I
work in. It isn't small, meant to be multi-purpose, but it gets the job
done. The virus defs are out of date (from early December), but it works
just as well. If you like it, I will start working on a CD for strictly
ClamAV, time is just a bugger to get right now.

Thanks, Brandon.

PS: If you want to start X on it (fluxbox), you need to sudo apt-get
install xserver-xorg, then startx.

Post by Jan-Pieter Cornet

I'm running into the situation, quite regularly lately, where I have to do a
virus scan of a machine that has either out-dated or no anti-virus software.
Obviously, just installing some anti-virus software and hoping that will
clean up everything afterwards is not a good solution.
Therefore, I'm looking at live CD's containing clamav that I can use, along
with the ntfs-3g drivers. They work, but they are all out of date. Knoppix
hasn't been updated in over a year, and the more recent INSERT is only at
version 0.90. While I can update the virus definitions on both (usually), I
want to run the latest version of the scan engine too for maximum
effectiveness.

I haven't got experience with this myself, but a colleague of mine installed
the ubuntu live CD on a USB memory stick, which then has the ability to
update itself.
http://www.debuntu.org/how-to-install-ubuntu-linux-on-usb-bar

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[Kelson]

So, does anyone know of a live CD with an up-to-date version of the scan
engine?

I don't think Clam is included directly on the Fedora 8 LiveCDs, but
Fedora now has a tool for creating custom LiveCDs from the distro:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraLiveCD/LiveCDHowTo

You can probably bundle in NTFS drivers from http://rpm.livna.org

[Brandon Perry]

The link I included has the 0.92 scan engine...

Post by Kelson

So, does anyone know of a live CD with an up-to-date version of the scan
engine?

I don't think Clam is included directly on the Fedora 8 LiveCDs, but
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraLiveCD/LiveCDHowTo
You can probably bundle in NTFS drivers from http://rpm.livna.org

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