Virus problem...

[Ray Parrish]

Ray Parrish wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Well, evidently it is not impossible to get a virus in Ubuntu... have a 
> look at this screen shot of clamav. 
> http://www.rayslinks.com/Screenshot-68.png
>
> When I select quarantine file from the clamav pop up menu, the file 
> listings disappear, but when I select empty quarantine, it tells me 
> there is nothing to delete. Then when I do a scan again, this listing 
> pops up again with the same files.
>
> Any ideas how I'm going to get out of this without a complete re-install?
>
> Thanks for any help you can be. Ray Parrish
>   
Apparently those entries in the screen shot are pointing to folders in 
the /root/.clamtk/ folder, which were written when it found the viruses, 
and I quarantined them the first time, then deleted them. I cannot open 
the folders in gedit's file open dialog to inspect any files which may 
reside in them.

ray at RaysComputer:~/Downloads$ cd /root/.clamtk
ray at RaysComputer:/root/.clamtk$ ls -a
.  ..  history  prefs  viruses
ray at RaysComputer:/root/.clamtk$ cd ./viruses
ray at RaysComputer:/root/.clamtk/viruses$ ls -a
.  ..  cache.VIRUS.VIRUS.VIRUS.VIRUS  gdm.VIRUS.VIRUS.VIRUS.VIRUS.VIRUS
ray at RaysComputer:/root/.clamtk/viruses$ cd 
./gdm.VIRUS.VIRUS.VIRUS.VIRUS.VIRUS
bash: cd: ./gdm.VIRUS.VIRUS.VIRUS.VIRUS.VIRUS: Permission denied
ray at RaysComputer:/root/.clamtk/viruses$

Once again, any help appreciated. There was a dd process running as weil 
which I killed with terminal, as it could not be killed in System 
Monitor. I do not normally see dd processes running on my system, so I 
killed it.

[other than that, all things are running well with no anomalies that I see]

Later, Ray Parrish


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