Virus scanner

R. Wood rw at ncf.ca
Sun Sep 27 17:58:45 UTC 2009


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Allegedly, on Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 01:10:29PM -0400, raymond house stated:
> Allegedly, on Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 01:04:32PM -0400, raymond house stated:
> > On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 12:54 PM, R. Wood wrote:
> > > Allegedly, on Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 12:40:13PM -0400, raymond house stated:
> > > > Hi,  under applications, system tools, there is a virus scanner
> > > > that came with Ubuntu (Ithink) and when I do a full scan that
> > > > takes about 20 minutes it says I have 3 virus ? is this valid?
> > > > Thanks,  Ray
> > >
> > > What is the name of the 'virus scanner' application?
> > >
> > > R.
> >
> > Hi, R. Wood, I knew someone would ask that, but there is no name
> > just a kind of icon ?? thats all I have.  Ray
>
> Hello again R.Wood, I found what this scanner is,  it's CLAMTK 4.08.
> Ray

This is a front-end for 'clamav'.  On linux systems it can be used to
scan for (windows) virii in email attachments for example.

Can you give details about what 'clamtk' is reporting about the 3
viruses found? (locations? options to clean-up the virii? etc.)

R.
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