Is there virus removal software for Jaunty KDE

[Steven Vollom]

> Third and more important: as many said, there is a fair chance you don't
> have any viruses, but something else is not working in your computer.
> It's not the router, since you are connecting with the laptop from the
> same router (I guess - am I right?), so it must be either between your
> main computer and the router (i.e. check the cable) or you network card,
> or some software configuration. I'm not a log expert so I don't know
> what to check, but that's the way to go.  

I don't know if it is important but there was a worm in the laptop.  It still 
works fine, but using Klamav I did find and quarantine a worm.  Is a worm a 
serious infection?

As far as the laptop is concerned, I am actually connected directly to the 
modem and have been for a couple of days now.

I haven't used the Router for its wireless capabilities for a year or so.  If 
my laptop was stable, I would use the router as a wireless connection.  

A couple of moments ago, I  needed to use the printer, and don't have it 
connected so I suppose I should use the router again.  I have only been using 
it as a hub though.  I don;t know if that is proper terminology, but I have 
been using the router by directing the signal from the modem to the router and 
from the router to each machine via ethernet cable.  I didn't even set any 
configuration when I started using it this way, I simply plugged the cables in 
and it worked.  I gave jaunty credit for that.  I don't understand very much 
about networking and would like to learn, but mostly I want to get the broken 
computer fixed.

One thing that confuses me though is, before the problem happened, I was using 
the broken computer just fine and the laptop too.  I did not change any 
configurations or mess with any wires when the problem occurred.  It just 
happened.

With all the information going back and forth, something I did do, and have 
talked about in detail, was change the mount points on my partitions and 
format and reinstall Jaunty kde 4.2.2.  I don't know if that counld have 
contributed to the problem, but it was a major change.

For years,  as a result of instruction too, I might add, I had mounted my 
partitions using media as the primary mount point.  I was always having mount 
point problems and the computer was continually changing the names of my 
partitions in Dolphin, so it is hard to know anymore what the original mount 
points were.  Sometimes the partitions would be named drive-1, drive-2, etc.  
Sometimes it woud change them to /media/sda1 /media/sda2 and the like.

As I recall, when I made the changes, change went like this
I changed a partition named /media/disk-1 to /home/steven/svpersonal.  It 
occupied all but the OS boot portion and swap of an 80gb HDD.

I changed the names of two partitions on the second HDD 200gb as follows:

/media/sdb5  I changed to /home, a 100gb partition.  I changed /media/sdb7 to 
/home/steven/backup.  The names pretty much explain how I use them.

The reason I did this was because I seem to have problem so much requiring re-
installation of the OS, that I wanted to set my partitions so that they were 
separate from the OS and other applications, but not loose the configuration 
and settings, nor any data should I need to format and re-install. I did not 
notice any problems caused by this change, but I don't have reasons for what 
is happening.  I am sure that you all are right and I probably don't have 
virus problems, did not use my router for the purpose it was made, and made 
the major change of my mount points.  

As I evaluate my former problems, they all seemed to have something to do with 
media mount changes that the computer automatically made from time to time.  I 
think this is because the /media is where cdrom and other like items are 
generally placed, and addiing my storage partitions and backups to that mount 
situation disrupted the original programming for scsi devices.  Hope the term 
is correct.

The minute I changed to /home based mount points the system became cleaner and 
more efficient.  It separated saved data and configurations from the OS 
partition, so when I did re-install, I retained the same desktop appearance, 
the same widgets in place, the same folders and email configurations and only 
had to reinstall 3rd party software like wine.  When I re-installed due to 
what I thought was a virus, the installation did not solve the problem.  When 
I considered the fact that after installing, I kept all my files, folders and 
settings relating to kmail, I thought that if there was a virus in my 
computer, I had opened a way for it to distribute itself through my whole 
system due to /home mounting as a part of all partitions except swap and boot 
partition. I don't see how this could have been part of the creation of my 
problem, but it did happen shortly before the problem occurred, so maybe it is 
relevant.  I have talked about this so many times in emails I don't know who 
has or doesn't have the information, or whether it is relevant at all.

If you think it relevant, and are willing, please tell anyone you think should 
know who is working the problem.  Thanks.

Steven
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