(important) Virus scanning w/knoppix

[Harry Kuhman]

I had about 50% bad downloads from the mirrors before the torrents became available, and the torrents are much faster too.

One concern that I have about NTFS corruption is that sometimes it happens immediately (which would prevent the recovery of anything that you want), but sometimes it happens but isn't evident until days or weeks later. People think everything is fine, then suffer the loss of everything they could have salvaged and also any new work they did. My rule is still simply to not write to Windows NTFS partitions with Knoppix (FAT partitions are safe). I guess I might make an exception if I absolutely positively was going to reinstall immediately after even if it looked like no damage was done, but it just seems easier to recover what is desired with Knoppix and then wipe out the infected drive with a fresh install.