Re: Are there any LiveCD antivirus solutions?

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The BitDefender folks publish something called "LinuxDefender" which is 
nothing more than a Knoppix variant with the latest BitD buried within.

It stores the signatures and unpacker engines on a unionfs volume at boot 
time and can therefore be dynamically updated.

Some time before, I'd stitched BitD into Helix (www.e-fense.com) without 
much effort.  The net effect is LinuxDefender, but it's easier for me to 
just maintain one tool for our use.

I've found BitD to be better than most native-Windows antivirus software. 
Much of that, of course, is having the OS out of the way while scanning.

- --On Wednesday, January 04, 2006 8:18 AM +0100 Varga Endre 
<[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello list!
>
> Do anybody know LiveCD antivirus products, or special LiveCD OSes for
> antiviral use? Or is there any existing linux based antivirus program
> that is able to refresh itself into memory?
>



Wyman Miles
Senior Security Engineer
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
(607) 255-8421
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