To make some use of this pretty cool, although quite outdated, sony vaio picturebook i have I have gone through disproportionate amount of work to get to the point of installing a new os, which in this case i chose puppy linux for low resource usage.
I do pc repair and maintenance work for a living, and though i have multiple tools for pc repair, i often find that the quickest solution to a boot drive too bogged down in spyware and viruses to run is to plug it into a working system and scan it from there, this is where the picture book comes in.
Basically I have found multiple spyware and antivirus progs that have linux versions, but im worried 1 about how effective these will be at scanning nfts drives, and 2 if by using usb to hdd converters and hd enclosures i will be able to quickly install and detect the drives to be scanned (my biggest concern is the drive compatibility and if the peripheral devices i mentioned will be able to be recognized from linux).
will i need to use a windows emulator to use the system this way? will that use up enough resources to not make it worth it?
Thanks for the help
I do pc repair and maintenance work for a living, and though i have multiple tools for pc repair, i often find that the quickest solution to a boot drive too bogged down in spyware and viruses to run is to plug it into a working system and scan it from there, this is where the picture book comes in.
Basically I have found multiple spyware and antivirus progs that have linux versions, but im worried 1 about how effective these will be at scanning nfts drives, and 2 if by using usb to hdd converters and hd enclosures i will be able to quickly install and detect the drives to be scanned (my biggest concern is the drive compatibility and if the peripheral devices i mentioned will be able to be recognized from linux).
will i need to use a windows emulator to use the system this way? will that use up enough resources to not make it worth it?
Thanks for the help