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VHD virus scanning
In order to do virus scanning on a suspect drive you can attach it as a slave to a system drive and then do a scan on it. Is there any way to replicate this with Server 2008/Virtual PC VHD's - e.g. virus scan a VHD that is just a VHD file?
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Yes, it's a good article but I don't see how it answered my question. I want to virus scan a VHD just as if it was a real drive and have the virus scanner report back which files if any inside the VHD are suspect. I didn't see that covered in the article.
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So just to be sure I understand correctly if I have a system with folders and in those folders are Word files, exe's, dll's, etc , the usual stuff you find on a computer, they would be scanned to see if they have a virus. If however I have a file that I have stored on there along with the other files that is a VHD with or without the VHD extension it won't be scanned?
VHD is scanned like other files. No as a special file containing other files inside (i.e. zip files are scanned that way). If your AV can detect virus signatures inside VHD - it can raport an issue. But you should not rely on it. Currently available AV software doesn't scan VHDs.
http://blogs.msdn.com/virtual_pc_guy/archive/2005/09/14/466291.aspx