Alternatives to ClamTK?

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I am using ClamTK - and i am happy with it.
Now Flatpak is advising that ClamTK is not receiving any updates anymore.
Since infostealers are on the rise, what are your suggestions for an alternative or parallel solution to ClamTK with the purpose of scanning my little, private PC regular and - if possible - including root?

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Flatpack is reasonably late:

Do you need a GUI? Under the hood clamav is running and that can run without an GUI.

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Sad. :cry: And as i am not aware of any Alternative for gamers like me, which are not keen to setup bashes in any terminal - this is a real pain. With Linux becoming more popular for gamers, it becomes a more interesting target for the bad boys … :scream:

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Has anybody heard about or used ClamAV-GUI ?
It seems like the author was once active in the OpenSuse-Community.

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Sometime ago I came across scanvirus, a script developed by @lord_valarian based on clamav & freshclam to update libraries. It worked really well for me, by don't know if it is still developed/ available :

https://forums.opensuse.org/t/scanvirus-v1-02-stable-release/163628
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That looks nice. You could ask the maintainer to push it to Factory…
BTW:

knurpht@Lenovo-P16:~> flatpak search clam
Naam                   Omschrijving                                                       Toepassings-ID             Versie    Branch   Remotes
ClamTk-virusscanner    ClamTk is een grafische gebruikersinterface voor Clam Antivirus    com.gitlab.davem.ClamTk    6.16      stable   flathub
knurpht@Lenovo-P16:~>

Did you try that?

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Hi @knurpht

I found ClamTk was inflexible for my requirements, so once I was able to adapt and use scanvirus I just kept using it. I run freshclam with the script to update the database and never went back to ClamTk.

There was also a GUI script but never got that one to work and since functionally was the same didn’t particularly try it either.

No idea what “push to factory” means, so can’t help there :slight_smile:

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“Push to Factory” basically means that it would end up in Tumbleweed’s distro repos.

One could consider to fork the script and include zenity / kdialog to provide some GUI.

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It is unfortunate that @lord_valerian seems to have left this forum, or at least gone quite. From memory he had been developing his scanvirus script for personal use for quite some time, but was happy to make it available to others. I asked and got some help to get it running and a list of main run options (extract below)

Maybe someone in this forum can contact him, but without it no sure about the rights or how practical would be to develop his script into something like I think you are alluding, even though seems like a good idea.

# SCANVIRUS Options
#           p1= main options and
#           p2= secondary options

#  MAIN options (see ScanvirusNotes.txt for all options)
#   p1 options
#       -a      scan linux & all mounted partitions, no automount
#       -f      scan folder
#       -vl     view logs
#       -vr     view virus reports and virus files
#       -vf     open virus vault
#       -h      view help file

#   p2 options"
#       r   recursive"
#       u   update freshclam database"
#       c   copy infected files to vault"
#       R   do NOT scan root folder"
#       H   do NOT scan home folder"
#       n   don't scan home and root"