General :: Anti-virus - Windows Partition McAfee Protect The Entire Computer?

Jan 13, 2010

My Ubuntu 9.10 is intalled on a partition on my computer HDD. The other partition OS is Windows XP. My Windows uses McAfee as the antiviral program. Granted that linux is at a much less risk for viruses, some still apparently can slide through on incoming emails from Windows computers.

1) Will my Windows partition McAfee protect the entire computer?
2) If not, suggestions for an anti-viral program?

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Oct 5, 2010

Advised on another forum to install XP pro then Linux on HD. Decided to try it. Not that savy with computers and have a mini-laptop in addition to desktop that was attacked. Virus
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Apr 25, 2010

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I have a Western Digital Pasport 320 GB hard drive. I wanted to create a live installation on it like a USB stick. I wanted it to serve as a portable OS that I could use to boot any other computer off of, and use it for diagnostics and anti-virus scanning on Windows based computers. The additional space is for my own personal use, kind of like having a mobile desktop where I have all of my documents in one place.What I need to know is how to set up Fedora 11 so that the hard drive will boot on most PCs regardless of their architecture. I also need to know what's a good Anti-virus to install onto it for the sake of fixing Windows hard drives.

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Nov 24, 2010

First you have to download avast anti virus software from avast website.now you will see avast web page called avast Linux home edition.you will see a Note: the program will not work with out a valid license key. To get your key places use the registration form.You have to click on registration form now you will see a new page called "Register for your free avast 1 year license" in the you have to give full details information to register for free license you will get key to your mail.Now you have go to avast Linux Edition (DEB Package)now you will see opening avast 4 workstation_1.3.0-2_i386.deb box you have to select
(.) open with "Ubuntu software Center (Default)"press {OK} button after downloading is over. You will see a box called Ubuntu software Center in that you see Right side a small box called Install just press that Install Button after you press Install button it will ask your system password give your password and press enter it will installed. now close your Ubuntu software Center now got Applications --> Accessories --> avast anti virus.just press in avast anti virus. You will see a box in that box you have to give avast key already they send to your mail after giving key and press enter you will get a box called avast anti virus
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I have a server Linux/Centos 5.3 who I have formed it like server of data with samba for a network with 5 Windows XP terminals; desire to know if it is also possible to form this equipment like server anti-virus multiplatform so that it can look for virus (and clean) to the terminals win xp.

I was looking for by the network on this subject, but I have not had favorable results, please if somebody could help with some Link or tutorial me that has found.

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i am putting a larger drive in my laptop, i have linux mint 10 KDE setup with all the software i need and running just the way i like it. is it possible to actually copy the entire partition to a external drive then place the partition back into my laptop with the new drive in it, and still have it all setup the way i had it?

basically so i dont have to reinstall everything and set it up again.if this is possible could you please explain how i can do it in the simpliest terms at all please.

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Apr 3, 2010

I am trying to install Gentoo. Currently I have windows 7 on my primary Hard Drive.I decided to add in a second HDD that I got for free and use linux on that.I got through my entire install and at the end I accidently wrote grub to my second hard drive.When I rebooted it went straight to windows.So I have some questions. When installing to the secondary HDD does my boot partition and swap need to be on sda? or can they reside on sdb?Also I tried to re-issue the grub-install command and it said bash: command not found. How can I get grub to re-install? I tried to emerge it and same issue no command found.Do I need to redo the entire reinstall?My last question is If I have more then enough HDD space how much is too much for linux? Most people say 30 GB is all you need from what I have read but I assume 160 GB is going to go to waste?

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