Thoughts about finding viruses in email inboxes

[ibmdemo25 at renovationsmail.mail.lotuslive.com]

> ----- Original message -----
> From: "Leonard Chatagnier" <lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net>
> To: "ibmdemo25 at playr-stage.rd.outblaze.com not for general
discussions"" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Subject: Re: Thoughts about finding viruses in email inboxes
> Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2009 19:12:37 -0700 (PDT)
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> --- On Sun, 3/29/09, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
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> > From: NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net>
> > Subject: Re: Thoughts about finding viruses in email inboxes
> > To: ibmdemo25 at playr-stage.rd.outblaze.com
> > Date: Sunday, March 29, 2009, 2:43 PM
> > On 03/29/2009 09:25 AM, Leonard Chatagnier wrote:
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> > >> > Thanks, Matthew, for the help:
> > > > clamscan -V
> > > ClamAV 0.94.2/9178/Sat Mar 28 21:52:31 2009
> > > > sudo clamscan -vir /
> > > [sudo] password for lchata:
> > > > Have looked at the man page, not the manual url(note
> > to myself to do so). Am running intrepid up-to-date.
> > > Output of above scan:
> > > ----------- SCAN SUMMARY -----------
> > > Known viruses: 537600
> > > Engine version: 0.94.2
> > > Scanned directories: 43409
> > > Scanned files: 191168
> > > Infected files: 5
> > > Data scanned: 6197.88 MB
> > > Time: 1125.166 sec (18 m 45 s)
> >
> > This doesn't answer your queston, but if you are only
> > using clamav to do
> > occasional on-demand scans, then I'd recommend that you
> > install clamtk
> > which is a graphical front-end for ClamAV. It's in the
> > Universe
> > repository. You'll need to run it in sudo mode in order
> > to get updates,
> > so make sure that the menu command is: 'gksu
> > /usr/bin/clamtk'.
> >
> Yep, I've tried it and it sucks. Wont update virus definition files
> or scan / recursively and locks up and quits going back to the CLI
> cursor. I tried this right after I first answered Matthew's
> questions early this afternoon, my time.
> I have no probs running clamav CLI, just getting the standard output
> to give some useful info.
>
> > Also, for similar (on-demand scans) I've found that
> > BitDefender not only
> > provides a faster scan engine, but also found trojan in an
> > old email
> > that I'd archived that clamav did not (both were fully
> > up to date).
> >
> > You can install using a repository from here:
> > http://download.bitdefender.com/repos/#
> > (includes 64bit version)
> > More info is here:
> > http://www.bitdefender.com/media/html/en/unicesportal/
> > http://unices.bitdefender.com/
> >
> I'll give bitdefebder a shot when I can add the repos. Good to have
> a 64 bit version.
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> > Documentation shows how to use from the CLI, set up for
> > cron jobs, scan
> > Evolution, Pine, etc.
> >
<http://www.bitdefender.com/PRODUCT-80-en--BitDefender-Antivirus-Scanner-for-Unices.html>
> >
> > http://www.bitdefender.com/site/Downloads/browseDocumentation/2/
> > download the 'BitDefender Antivirus Scanner for Unices
> > User Guide'.
> >
> A lot of reading to do first-:))
> Just wondering why clamav, which I like and have used much, no longer
> gives any info on the found viruses names and their location as it
> once did. Yep, even used --stdoutput option.
> >
> >
>
> Leonard Chatagnier
> lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net
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