ANTIVIRUS Software

Lubica · January 22, 2010, 8:42pm

Hello Guys,

I am currently running opensuse 11.2 on a company network. Our IT department keeps asking me about the antivirus I am gonna use to protect the system…bla, bla, bla…I keep reading that Opensuse does not need any but our IT people would like me to put something on.

So, any ideas?

Lubica

caf4926 · January 22, 2010, 8:46pm

Generally not required in a Linux environment, but in your circumstances, perhaps Windows is used too??
So you may find it useful but much depends on your setup

clamav is available

hendersj · January 22, 2010, 8:54pm

On Fri, 22 Jan 2010 19:46:02 +0000, Lubica wrote:

> So, any ideas?

clamav is included in the standard repositories and should suffice.

Jim

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GofBorg · January 22, 2010, 9:07pm

Commercially…

http://www.f-prot.com/products/corporate_users/unix/

Best part is it is cross platform so you can maintain
the same AV solution on Linux that you use on your Windows hosts.

ken_yap · January 22, 2010, 10:43pm

Install clamav, and tell them that’s your AV software. If they are happy with that, end of story. No need to get into a debate with the IT department about whether AV is needed or not.

Rikishi42 · January 24, 2010, 1:14am

On 2010-01-22, Lubica <Lubica@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> wrote:

> I am currently running opensuse 11.2 on a company network. Our IT
> department keeps asking me about the antivirus I am gonna use to protect
> the system…bla, bla, bla…I keep reading that Opensuse does not need
> any but our IT people would like me to put something on.

Are you sure they’re from IT?

Ask them if they can justify the waste of resources, involved in running an
unneeded tool.

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syampillai · January 24, 2010, 8:56am

You can ask your IT department to send few emails or files with viruses to you for testing

That way, you can prove that your machine can not be infected.

Then, you send it back to them and see if their “so called” anti-virus program can really protect them or not.

Lubica · January 26, 2010, 2:48pm

Thank you guys for your response. Clamav is gonna be then installed. Thanks again…

anna_tabanna · August 31, 2010, 8:14am

Hello Forum

Having upgraded to openSuSE 11.3 it seems that after several years of no-problems with f-prot, it is now Crashing my openSuSE 11.3 installation for home user Desktop KDE 32 bit.

have done a Memtest and memory seems alright.
have next done an individual F-Prot scan of each root Directory :
Once the crash occured on scan of /tmp directory, but a second scan of /tmp passed OK
Next time the crash occured on scan of /home , but a second try passed OK
. . . any ideas what the problem might be?? [using SATA 1TB WesternDigital Hard Disk]
thanks
Anna

Pilgervater · August 31, 2010, 8:25am

Seems to be an antivirus-engine bug! Thats the reason why they are not useful!

josephkuria · June 17, 2011, 1:31pm

I installed clamav on my 11.3 and this is what i got

------SCAN SUMMARY -----------
Known viruses: 972038
Engine version: 0.97
Scanned directories: 3375
Scanned files: 26270
Infected files: 15
Data scanned: 17060.66 MB
Data read: 88336.07 MB (ratio 0.19:1)
Time: 7937.765 sec (132 m 17 s)

How do i clean the scanned virus on terminal

anna_tabanna · June 17, 2011, 1:48pm

Hello josephkuria

hopefully an experienced administrator will reply to you, because i do not know
but, as a guess :

if your command is something like :

clamscan -ri /

then the scan process will list the paths to the 15 infected files

. . . then, work thru the list doing :

rm /path-to-infected-file

…

best regards

DenverD · June 17, 2011, 2:08pm

On 06/17/2011 01:36 PM, josephkuria wrote:
>
> Infected files: 15
> How do i clean the scanned virus on terminal

what is your operating system and version?

what was the command line you used to get that report?

did clamav give you a list of infected files?

were you scanning windows partitions only, and/or (say) mail on the
way to windows users only?

are those partitions mounted read/write, or??

do you have midnight commander installed?

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robin_listas · June 17, 2011, 3:03pm

On 2011-06-17 14:06, anna tabanna wrote:
> rm /path-to-infected-file

Don’t do that before you know what the file is and thinking a little.

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Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)

anna_tabanna · June 18, 2011, 10:14am

Hello Carlos

as always . . . Thank you, Thank you, Thank you . . . Quite correct

…

best wishes

josephkuria · June 20, 2011, 7:48pm

still no help. who can assist. Iam using suse linux 11.3 gnome desktop. i need to clean the infected files.

robin_listas · June 20, 2011, 8:33pm

On 2011-06-20 20:03, josephkuria wrote:
>
> still no help. who can assist. Iam using suse linux 11.3 gnome desktop.
> i need to clean the infected files.

Insufficient data to compute an answer.

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Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)

DenverD · June 20, 2011, 9:49pm

On 06/20/2011 08:03 PM, josephkuria wrote:
>
> still no help. who can assist. Iam using suse linux 11.3 gnome desktop.
> i need to clean the infected files.

i might be able to help, but refuse to give me the information i asked
for (three days ago) which most anyone here needs to guess an answer…

if you can’t provide the info maybe it is best for you to use this in a
terminal


man clamav

or maybe this would help:

http://www.google.com/search?q=clamav+clean+files

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