Thoughts about finding viruses in email inboxes

[Matthew Flaschen]

Leonard Chatagnier wrote:
> Have the same problem even on a manual test of the HDD.  It reports
> several viruses found but doesn't say what or where they are located.
> In the past, clamav, would list the names and location but now it
> doesn't anymore or I can't find them.

What clamav command are you running, exactly, and what version (of
Ubuntu and the command)?  Have you looked at the manual
(http://www.clamav.net/doc/latest/clamdoc.pdf) or man page to see if it
has the options you want?

I see no sign of a "hidden virus" problem.  i did notice an unrelated
database glitch similar to
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=471643 but upgrading to
0.94.2/8683/Wed from hardy backports solved that.  With the latest
command, this sequence works exactly as expected and documented:

mkdir -p avtest
for i in a b c d;
do
dd if=/dev/urandom count=1 bs=68 of=avtest/$i
done

clamscan -i -r avtest
wget https://secure.eicar.org/eicar.com -O avtest/c
clamscan -i -r avtest

It prints:

avtest/c: Eicar-Test-Signature FOUND

Of course, there are other clamav options you can use, but this one is
simple and in line with what you want.

Matt Flaschen