Thoughts about finding viruses in email inboxes

[Leonard Chatagnier]

--- On Mon, 3/30/09, Matthew Flaschen <matthew.flaschen at gatech.edu> wrote:

> From: Matthew Flaschen <matthew.flaschen at gatech.edu>
> Subject: Re: Thoughts about finding viruses in email inboxes
> To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Date: Monday, March 30, 2009, 2:20 AM
> 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.
> 
Thanks for the refresher on what not to scan.  Was about to go search the archives for that oft reported info.

Leonard Chatagnier
lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net