Is there virus removal software for Jaunty KDE

[Steven Vollom]

On Saturday 13 June 2009 09:35:58 pm Richard S. Crawford wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 6:28 PM, Martin Laberge<mlsoftlaberge at gmail.com> 
wrote:
> > Just do not think anymore about virus.
> >
> > You are using linux, and do not need to do it.
>
> Not *precisely* true. There are rootkits and trojans that can affect
> Linux, but they're rare and hardly ever found in the wild. If you're
> using your Linux computer as a mail server, then you definitely need a
> virus detector like ClamAV to detect and eliminate viruses before they
> make their way to the mailbox of someone using Windows.
>
> Viruses, trojans, and rootkits are very, very rare for Linux, though.
> In general, if your computer is acting like it has a virus, then the
> first place to look is your system logs. It's far more likely that
> there's a misconfiguration somewhere
>
> --
> Richard S. Crawford (rscrawford at mossroot.com)
> http://www.mossroot.com
> Publisher and Editor in Chief, Daikaijuzine (http://www.daikaijuzine.com)

I have never looked at my system logs.  I wouldn't know what to look for.  How 
do I do this?  What do I look for?  I am so very curious, because I explained 
just how I have been affected, and because of the progressive way my system has 
lost its abilities, to me it doesn't make sense that it could be anything 
else.

What natural hard or software break cause my computer's name to be added to 
the sending address of another.  When attempting to correct that problem, what 
natural event would then change the person you are sending's email address 
from '.' to '--dot--'.  Next server replies that the sender's address needs to 
be corrected.  Then the router fails. Then using an Internet email service 
starts acting strange by delayed mouse actions while other surfing remains 
pretty normal.  Then direct connection fails to the DSL modem.  Each is a 
communication problem relating to disrupting the sending of an email which 
progressively took place before the ability to send/receive an email stopped 
completely.  I failed to mention, I formatted and reinstalled the OS and the 
problem remains, however, there may be a logical reason for that due to how I 
set up my mount points.

/  for boot
/home/steven/svprivate     for remainder of that same HDD.


/home         for first 100mb the second drive.
/home/steven/backup         for the second 99mb of the second HDD.

Each have direct connection to the boot partition, because of their 
relationship to the /home directory, but none are affected by application or OS 
failures that result in re-installation.  That is the reason I believe it is a 
virus, and why it is not removed by reinstalling the Boot Partition.

Since this is the first time I have been taken serious with this problem, I 
have concluded that I need a virus application that can be downloaded to my 
laptop, copied to a thumb drive and/or CD, so that there is a means to get it 
into the offended computer.  That means I will need help making that 
installation.  I have only used a command line or package manager to install 
an application in Kubuntu, and there is no Internet connection to the affected 
computer.  I would need help for that.

Steven
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