Posted on 03/29/2011 11:26:05 AM PDT by Professional
Yes but it has to be burned as an iso image you cant just burn the files to disc. What ever burner you use just look in tools and you should see burn disc image or burn image. Ok go here this explains how to burn an image to disc.
By the way puppy is a great distro very easy but I would stay away from it till you get to know some of the in’s and out’s of linux puppy boots into root and you can delete or damage files on your computer it is great tho if you need to recover files off a damaged system or one that is locked down. Like games check out the Linux Gamers.
http://www.puppylinux.com/cd-puppy.htm
http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=linuxgamers
My 2 cents...
Was using an AV program recommended to me by a Navy LCDR with a masters in computer tech. He said Clam Win was great so downloaded it as freeware. Never a problem and it caught stuff every so often, and I was always able to get rid of the nasties.
Reading the posts above, no one even mentioned Clam Win so I figured maybe I’d better upgrade to Kaspersky and pay for some “real” protection.
Scanned my entire system with the Kaspersky AV and it found nothing as well. No worries. But it does have better options and will use it until license expires in a year.
Spybot runs on my system as well.
I had to use hijackthis to find the crap and killbox to get it before it re-spawned. I had one called Aurora a couple of years ago. It would just rename its files on restart. Vaguely remember using about five different programs to get everything.
I didnt know Clam AV had a Windows version of course it might not be the same as I am thinking of, if it is it would be a good choice. The Clam I am thinking of is used on Unix systems wonder if it is the same.
Not sure, he just recommended searching for ClamWin.
Found it using Google. I wonder if it is someway tied together?
ClamWin Free Antivirus is based on ClamAV engine and uses GNU General Public License by the Free Software Foundation, and is free (as in freedom) software.
Yep it is. From the site I linked.
been there and done that. especially if it’s a rootkit
I did the same yep same Clam I never used it but I am sure it is good as most Unix, Linux systems use it . Here is one I recommend to most people as you boot it up without starting your system that way it can find and delete files also has many other uses such as reset Win passwords and yes it does work lol.
Short list of some things Trinity does.
-easily reset windows passwords with the improved winpass tool
-simple and easy menu interface
-5 different virusscan products integrated in a single uniform commandline with online update capability
-full ntfs write support thanks to ntfs-3g
-winclean, a utility that cleans up all sorts of unnecessary temporary files on your computer.
-clone computers over the network via multicast.
-wide range of hardware support (kernel 2.6.35 )
-contributed backup utility called “pi”, to automate local machine backups
-easy script to find and mount all local filesystems
-self update capability to include and update all virusscanners + local changes you made to TRK.
-full proxyserver support.
-run a samba fileserver (windows like filesharing)
-run a ssh server
-recovery and undeletion of files with utilities and procedures
-recovery of lost partitions
-evacuation of dying disks
-full read/write and rpm support
-UTF-8 international character support (select keyboard language from the scrollable textmenu at startup)
-2 rootkit detection uitilities
-most software updated to recent versions
-literally thousands of changes and bugfixes since version 3.3
-elaborated documentation, including manpages for all commands (also TRK ‘s own)
Active X controls in IE can be turned off from Internet Options > Security > Custom Level...
I still don’t believe you can catch a virus from visiting a page (or I would have caught them long ago), not with Avast warning system.
Anyway, update: I said goodbye to Zone Alarm firewall which I installed yesterday, when I discovered that it apparently prevented Avast from daily updating its database.
>>Get Carbonite, you’ll never lose anything.<<
When I first read that I thought it said, “Get Cordite, you’ll never lose anything. LOL
I’ve heard through certain “friends” that works too.
I suspect when the time comes - I’ll have the motivation... just like you did. Thanks for checking.
Ok, so now it is a few days later.
After stumbling upon the ability to “update” windows xp on my computer, WITHOUT having to wipe out other programs and files, I have done that to the other two computers in my office/network.
The only problem, was that it installed IE Explorer 6 onto the computer, wiping out IE 7. So, I simply had it re installed. Warning, in one case, there was no internet connection at all, so I needed to do a thumb drive install from one computer to the next. There’s a benefit in having two puters in one place for sure...
Reinstalling the operating system did require me to go to Windows update, and it wound up with over 80 updates, so that takes a bit of time. About 45 minutes I’d say.
The big benefit for me, was these three computers which had always been really slow and awful, all of a sudden have really good speed/performance. So, I’ve concluded that the independant guy I bought them from, did something wrong on the install, and even though I paid/begged him to figure out what was wrong, he never did figure it out, and showed little interest in satisfying us as a customer. Lesson learned! Always test the computer BEFORE you buy it.
Here is something new I just found AVIRA Anti Virus. I am downloading now it comes as an ISO or a Windows EXE file.
Thought it might interest you.
http://www.avira.com/en/support-download-avira-antivir-rescue-system
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