The ClamAV LiveCD was a CD I created while I was working at the computer repair shop to scan computers for viruses. It was a small CD (around 120 MB). The traditional way (take the hard drive out, stick it in another computer, scan it, take it out, put it back in) was extremely cumbersome and was a big bottleneck since we could only scan 2 HDD's at once (1 SATA, 1 IDE). With this CD, I was able to scan as many computer as I wanted, even remotely with SSH. It ran on all the computers I tried it on, but in order to run a ClamAV scan, I highly recommend at least 192 MB RAM (I have run it in 128 before, but it took like 6 hours).
 
This is a more general purpose version of the ClamAV Live CD with tools to help repair filesystems, recover deleted files, wipe hard drives, and a slew of other things. Requires a faster computer. It has evolved to include vulnerability assessment tools, network and computer security assessment tools and benchmarks, as well as the computer repair and diagnostics tools. I would say it's similar to backtrack, except I find backtrack excessively bloated which is why I use and maintain this one for the most part. I will add apps and such as requests come in or as I find them useful.
 
If you would like a customized version of this CD for your own personal use or business (for a super-low price none-the-less!), feel free to contact me. 
 
Wiki: http://www.volatileminds.net/opendiagnostics
 
If you like this project, you may like my network autoassessment script/appliance.

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