Wubi installation, Antivirus for Windows in Linux

Stephen cryptworks at gmail.com
Sun Apr 26 11:43:37 MST 2009


I know that avast makes a linux ac client that's free
But ubuntu will resize your disk for a true dualboot
Alternatively wini is nice but I have no idea how things will work
with a virus involved

On 4/26/09, Renato Patron <linux at patrondesigns.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
> I have a customer's computer that has been infected with a lot of
> malware/spyware. I can get into the PC but as soon as I connect to the
> Internet, the computer freezes.
> I'd like to install Ubuntu from scratch, but my customer is not
> completely sure about that. Also she has a lot of
> music/pictures/documents and some software in Windows that wants to use,
> and I think that having a dual-boot will be less complicated.
>
> Does anybody have experience using Wubi on an infected Windows
> partition?
> Does anybody knows of an Antivirus for Windows that will work in Ubuntu
> so maybe I can cleanup the Windows partition?
>
> Thanks for your answers,
>
> Renato
>
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