Dear all: I am a Fedora 7 user running ClamAV to protect my data on my PC (though they're extremely rare). However today I ran into problems. My girlfriend uses a WinXP system, which became severely infected by viruses. Now she is going to make a system clean-up. The plan is:
S1. Copy all her important data to a portable media; S2. Re-format her entire file system (thus destroying everything) and re-install WinXP; S3. While she's doing 2, I scan the portable media using ClamAV on my computer, and (possibly) remove the viruses which might have been 'backed-up' along with her regular files; S4. Copy the (possible) ClamAV-scanned data back to her computer. The problem is that whether Step 3 can be realized. I don't know whether ClamAV is able to detect Win32 PE viruses. I'm fairly confident that the PE viruses could not infect my system but I'm not sure whether I can detect them. I know the above procedure is rather absurd... However I haven't came up with other ideas. The situation is that she will stick to WinXP and I cannot afford a Win32 antivirus software, and worst I'm not familiar with Windows. I appreciate your suggestions. Cong PS. If you find my English bad, please pardon me --- I'm not a native Englihs speaker. Thank you for your patience. _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html
