Thoughts about finding viruses in email inboxes

[Leonard Chatagnier]

--- On Sun, 3/29/09, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> From: NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net>
> Subject: Re: Thoughts about finding viruses in email inboxes
> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Date: Sunday, March 29, 2009, 2:43 PM
> 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'.
> 
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.

> 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