Re: Can I virus scan a mounted MSDOSFS

uOn 2007-09-16, Steven J Masta <smasta@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
JE wrote:
As a bit of background, my daughter (aged 13) has a dual boot machine with
XP and FreeBSD. She has gotten something wonky onto her XP side. I set up
the XP using MSDOSFS, rather than NTFS so I would be able to read/write to
the partition nicely from BSD. The symptom is: When her machine is on
running XP my ADSL modem starts to go nuts. Internet traffic goes to 0 when
her machine is turned off or running FreeBSD.

Anyway.

Is there something in the ports that I could install to run a
comprehensive scan on the XP partition (actually a dedicated HD)?

Cheers and Thanks

JE

p.s. Please don't tell me she shouldn't run XP. She has a large number of
games etc. that are Windows only. Also, some educational stuff will not run
on anything other than Windows.

If it's an actual virus then clamav (in ports/security) should find it.

Steve

Thanks.

Not a virus. Limewire. And a few other things that were not supposed to be
there. I am becoming badly ignorant of all things Windows. I'll have to do
something about that.

Anyway. I'll try clamav.

Cheers.

JE
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