As a general rule, the best time to eradicate a Windows virus is before it becomes active. In the past, you could do this by putting the antivirus program on a DOS boot diskette and launching the infected computer off it. Unfortunately, today's antivirus software is now far too big for diskettes. One alternative is to boot your machine off a Linux Live CD and run an antivirus scanner on your Windows partition. Several vendors supply a Linux version of their software, but they can be difficult to install in Puppy. The following procedure describes how to do this with AntiVir.
1. Create a folder anywhere on your system and name it "antivir"
2. Inside the folder, create a script named "update". You can do this in ROX by right-clicking and choosing New > Script.
3. Add these two lines to the script:
wget http://dl.antivir.de/down/vdf/rescue_update.zip
unzip -o rescue_update
4. Run the script with the command: ./update
This will download and extract the antivir binary and four virus definition files.
5. You may also want to get a license key. Use this command:
wget http://dl1.avgate.net/down/windows/hbedv.key
(The above step is perfectly legal. It comes from AntiVir's own user forum.)
6. To scan Windows, mount its partition and use a command like:
./antivir -s /mnt/hda1
or
./antivir -s /mnt/hda1/WINDOWS
or
./antivir -s "/mnt/hda1/Program Files"
These commands will just identify suspicious files. You could then manually delete them. Or you could run AntiVir with one of its auto-disinfect options. To see the complete list of options, type:
./antivir -h
Once you have this system in place, you can easily transfer it to a flash drive and use it with your favourite Linux rescue CD.
How to Install AntiVir for Linux
How to Install AntiVir for Linux
Last edited by rcrsn51 on Tue 05 Aug 2008, 12:18, edited 2 times in total.
