Has Clamwin now gone beyond the mostly email scanning
database? I recall that Clam's original purpose had been to
look for the types of malware that you would expect to find
in the email environment and misused as an all around scanner
by many of the open source proponents.

It shouldn't be any problem inspecting the files, but affecting
them is another matter.

"Doug McIntyre" <merlyn@geeks.org> wrote in message
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> "Will" <westes-usc@noemail.nospam> writes:
>>Can someone recommend an anti-virus solution that lets you build a boot CD
>>that will inspect the NTFS file system for trojans or viruses without any
>>need to boot the OS on the file system you are inspecting?
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> Thats not going to be too common, because its not a very effective
> model for ongoing A/V protection.
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> You could probably do something like this by combining together
> something like BartPE or WindowsPE boot disks with Clamwin so that can
> you can boot (or even PXE boot) off CD and run Clamwin to scan files
> on the mounted hard drive.
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