Thoughts about finding viruses in email inboxes

[Matthew Flaschen]

Leonard Chatagnier wrote:

> I also scanned through the cli output of the -v option and never was
> there a virus or test file found only scanning <file> on every line. 
> As you can see, it didn't even scan the entire / dir, much less
> recursively.  Need that -r option even if not -v-:

Yes, of course.

> sudo clamscan -ir /   worked after I got over my windose habits and
> realized that I needed to wait for the scan to complete before I got
> any output. It did find 7 files, all ClamAV-Test-File(4) &
> Eicar-Test-Signature(3 files) but with so much cruft warning and
> error output, I had to scroll back 4 or 5 screen pages to find the
> virus test file data. What a pain; the developers sure screwed up on
> this one, IMO.

No, they didn't.  You scanned the entire /. Of course there are going to
 be errors.  It would be smarter not to scan /sys, /dev, etc.  If,
however, you choose to scan them, expect errors.

Matt Flaschen