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I browsed through the archives, and it seems like there's no live CD from which to run a good, up-to-date anti-virus application, at least to check whether a Windows host has been compromised

  • The Ultimate Boot CD has only three AV applications, and their virus definition is from... 2007
  • In a report, ClamAV scored very low. It's nice that it's open-source, but if it's not as good as commercial alternatives...

Those of you into this kind of thing, do you confirm that there's just no good live CD to inspect Windows hosts, and possibly repair them? If there is, what do you recommend?

Thank you.

OverTheRainbow
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I am not sure about any live cd distribution . But You can use Avast! linux edition with Ubuntu to remove antivirus on you windows box. There is an excellent article on HowTogeek about the same.

ukanth
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Your best bet is probably UBCD4Win.

http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/Boot-Manager-Disk/UBCD4WIN.shtml

It has a variety of AV tools and the definitions can be updated. For information on how to do this, see here:

http://ubcd4win.com/forum/index.php?act=idx

A new beta version is out:

Want to beta test UBCD4Win 3.60?

You could also try one of the recovery CD's from someone like Dr Web:

http://www.softpedia.com/get/Antivirus/Dr-Web-LiveCD.shtml

or Kaspersky:

Kaspersky Rescue Disk – Load Kaspersky AntiVirus 2009 Using DOS

Pulse
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AVG has a live cd meant for virus removal that I would highly reccomend. Alternative have a live USB stick with Ubuntu and a free anti virus, like clamwin.

tombull89
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