Thoughts about finding viruses in email inboxes

[NoOp]

On 03/29/2009 12:43 PM, NoOp wrote:
> 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'.

Answer to your question is:

sudo clamscan -i /

The problem with adding the 'v' is that it lists all files scanned & the
infected file(s) get lost among them unless you ouput to a log file &
then review.