Re: Wubi installation, Antivirus for Windows in Linux

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Author: Stu
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Subject: Re: Wubi installation, Antivirus for Windows in Linux
AVG also has a free Linux version.

On Sun, 2009-04-26 at 11:43 -0700, Stephen wrote:
> 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 <> 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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