My roommate's computer has been running slowly ever since she brought it into class to run PowerPoint for an oral presentation. We believe it may have contracted a virus, especially since it refuses to run the Virus Scan (you click on it and nothing happens). I was looking around for a CD like Knoppix that had a Virus Scanner on it (one of my friends was convinced he'd seen one before) and while I didn't find the CD he was talking about I did find a link to an old program to install a Virus Scanner while running the LiveEval CD.

http://www.cs.bsu.edu/homepages/gjjo...KnoppixCd.html

After updating for the newer version of f-prot (and making a guess about the new location/name of the check-updates file, we came up with the following code:

#
# Install f-prot - useful in combination with persistant home
#
# Edited version
#

mkdir -p $HOME/software/
cd $HOME/software/
wget ftp://www.f-prot.com/pub/linux/fp-linux-ws-4.4.1.tar.gz
tar xzf fp-linux-ws-4.4.1.tar.gz

mkdir -p $HOME/man/man8
mkdir -p $HOME/bin

ln -fs $(pwd)/f-prot/f-prot.sh $HOME/bin/f-prot
ln -fs $(pwd)/f-prot/check-updates.sh $HOME/bin/check-updates.sh
ln -fs $(pwd)/f-prot/man8/f-prot.8 $HOME/man/man8/
ln -fs $(pwd)/f-prot/man8/check-updates.sh.8 $HOME/man/man8/

# Setting up Manpath & PATH for f-prot

cp $HOME/.bashrc $HOME/.bashrc.templ
cat $HOME/.bashrc.templ | grep -v "export MANPATH=\$HOME/man" | grep -v "export PATH=\$HOME/bin/"> $HOME/.bashrc
echo "export MANPATH=\$HOME/man/:\$MANPATH" >> $HOME/.bashrc
echo "export PATH=\$HOME/bin/:\$PATH" >> $HOME/.bashrc
rm -f $HOME/.bashrc.templ

# Fix paths

cp f-prot/f-prot.sh /tmp/f-prot.$$
sed 's%/usr/local/f-prot/%'$(pwd)'/f-prot/%g' /tmp/f-prot.$$ > f-prot/f-prot.sh

cp f-prot/tools/check-updates.pl /tmp/f-prot.$$
sed 's%/usr/local/f-prot/%'$(pwd)'/f-prot/%g' /tmp/f-prot.$$ > f-prot/tools/check-updates.pl
rm -f /tmp/f-prot.$$

# cleanup

rm -f fp-linux-sb.tar.gz

Unfortunately, it still won't run. Or rather, we can run through the code without a problem (except at "cp f-prot/tools/check-updates.pl /tmp/f-prot.$$" is asks if we want to overwrite "/tmp/f-prot.988"), but the virus scanner won't run. We can click on the icon in the /home/knoppix/software/f-prot folder, but it doesn't do anything. And typing "exec f-prot" while in the f-prot folder results in the sound of the CD spinning, and the Console suddenly shutting down without further ado.
So I am wondering if anyone can help. Is this just her computer refusing to run a Virus Scan yet again? Or is the Virus Scanner just too new to install onto the RAM disk in a LiveEval CD? Any help would be appreciated.