Using the safe, stable, and sexy live CD:
Remember. Linux is not for everyone.
Now on ScienceBlogs: Great Plains Emerging Diseases Conference
Evolution, Life Sciences, Science Education, Human Evolution, and Stuff
Click on "About" for the big picture, and "Archives" for the details.
If you must read only a few things today, please select from the following:
"Excuse me, there's some food in my bugs!", an exploration of human eating insects instead of the other way 'round. Also check out this related PODCAST.
You've heard the news, now find out what the scientists haven't told you because it is kinda hard to 'splain: What Happened to Our Beloved Archaeopteryx?
Why do mainstream newspapers still publish anti-evolution crank mail? Because you have not told them to refrain. Click the link and join the movement.
An archaeological expedition to the Congo
The contents of Greg Laden's Blog are copyrighted by Greg Laden.
The Skeptical Search Engine
This search engine will only give you results from carefully selected skeptical and scientific sites.
« Reinstalling Grub | Main | Evolution vs. Creationism on Family Guy »
Category: Linux
Posted on: July 4, 2009 5:25 PM, by Greg Laden
Using the safe, stable, and sexy live CD:
Remember. Linux is not for everyone.
TrackBack URL for this entry: http://scienceblogs.com/mt/pings/113663
Comments
Huge tracts of land?
She's not causing enough nerdjaculant, so she thought she'd throw in some Python?
That's just overachieving.
Posted by: Kitty'sBitch | July 4, 2009 5:39 PM
Great t-shirt. Monty Python FTW! Especially when used in the correct context!
ClamAV is great too. If you don't want to have to use the GUI interface, do this (assuming you already have clamav from the repository, which the live CD will probably have -- if you don't have it, "sudo apt-get install clamav" will install it):
sudo freshclam (to update to the newest signature)
Make sure your drive is mounted wherever it normally gets mounted.
sudo clamscan --infected --bell --move=/path/to/virus/vault -r /path/to/mounted/drive
The --infected makes it only print out when it finds an infected file. Omit it if you want to watch as it displays every single file on your drive. --bell makes it beep when it finds a virus. --move= sends all infected files to a specific folder (what I'm calling a "virus vault" here). -r recurses through all subfolders.
There are a lot more options than presented here. clamscan --help will list most of the relevant ones.
Posted by: Jason Thibeault | July 4, 2009 5:49 PM
And she's way hotter than the Mac dude, too.
Posted by: Rorschach | July 5, 2009 11:00 AM
Viruses and stability is the main reason why I replace PC with MAC and honestly I'm very happy with this. I forget about viruses and constant blue screens. Life seems better right now.
Posted by: Agencja Reklamowa | July 10, 2009 5:43 AM