Thoughts about finding viruses in email inboxes

[Robert Holtzman]

On Mon, 6 Apr 2009, Leonard Chatagnier wrote:

>
>
> --- On Mon, 4/6/09, Robert Holtzman <holtzm at cox.net> wrote:
>>
>> The key I used was the one from the error message. The info
>> on the site
>> that you refer to is for checking package integrity, not
>> for
>> verifying the download site.
>>
> Really, I would expect the gpg key for package verification to
> be there too on the downloads section.  Maybe I'm wrong and thinking 
> of another package as have done a few of late.
>
>> As it turns out, adding the source to sources.list and
>> running apt-get
>> update adds the packages to synaptic even without
>> verification. When I
>> installed them I was notified they couldn't be verified
>> but they seemed
>> to install O.K. When I get some time tomorrow I'll see
>> how it goes.
>>
> Great, then you solved your problem. As mentioned BD is much faster
> than clamscan and I have come to use it more than clamscan. Enjoy,

Not quite. The problem was/is being able to authenticate the d/l server. 
I finally found what gpg server they use in the users manual and was 
able to import the key and export it to a local file per the manual's 
instructions. Only problem is that it's not the same key as in the error 
message, so I still get the error message and can't authenticate the 
server. *Sigh*, at least I can sort of run the app.

FYI, I ran bdscan on a 73Gb $HOME/mail file and after a few minutes the 
box crashed with a cpu overtemp warning. The cpu is an AMD Athlon 5200. 
It looks like I will have to break the scan into segments.

Anyone else run into this?

Thanks for your reply.

-- 
Bob Holtzman
"If you think you're getting free lunch,
  check the price of the beer"