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Old 23rd February 2009, 09:09 PM
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Hi, i have a dual boot on my pc, windows xp and Fedora, my question is
how can i use fedora to detect and delete viruses and spyware on my
windows partition.
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Old 23rd February 2009, 09:19 PM
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Hi,

What you could do is mount the windows partition once in Fedora, then use a program such as ClamAV or other, to scan the NTFS/FAT32/FAT16 partition.
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AVAST has one that runs under LINUX as well.
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