Thoughts about finding viruses in email inboxes

[NoOp]

On 03/29/2009 09:25 AM, Leonard Chatagnier wrote:

>> 
> 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'.

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/

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'.