Hi,
I’m looking for an antivirus to use on my 13.1 to scan various usb flash drives and external hdds that I receive. I actually want to disinfect them before moving them to windows machines. Is there an antivirus or some sort of good virus scanners for use in linux out there ?
What do you guys use for scanning ?
Probably the most used is ClamAV
TSU
There are several. AVG, Kapersky, Avast, clamav to name a few. Just do a google search. I keep bitdefender on my portable USB install for this purpose. It is my favorite. http://download.bitdefender.com/repos/rpm/
On 2014-02-08 23:56, robertot5 wrote:
> What do you guys use for scanning ?
clamav is free and open, and thus, available from the standard repos.
Others, like “antivir” can be obtained for free for non commercial use.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 13.1 x86_64 “Bottle” (Minas Tirith))
On Sat, 08 Feb 2014 22:56:01 +0000, robertot5 wrote:
> Hi,
> I’m looking for an antivirus to use on my 13.1 to scan various usb flash
> drives and external hdds that I receive. I actually want to disinfect
> them before moving them to windows machines. Is there an antivirus or
> some sort of good virus scanners for use in linux out there ?
>
> What do you guys use for scanning ?
clamav
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Jim Henderson
openSUSE Forums Administrator
Forum Use Terms & Conditions at http://tinyurl.com/openSUSE-T-C
So clamAV will be :).
I’m currently using Hirens Boot CD 15.2 to do scanning on pc with windows, but I struggle with cds because if I put it on a usb flash drive there is the risk of getting it infected when used. I searched for various methods to write protect a flash drive but there seem to be only one good method - flash drives with write protect switch, wich are very hard to find now.
I read all about SD cards with card readers, filing the flash drive’s free space with zeroes, etc.
What do you guys use as portable tools for disinfecting machines ? Flash drives ? cds ?
On Sun, 09 Feb 2014 11:36:01 +0000, robertot5 wrote:
> So clamAV will be :).
>
> I’m currently using Hirens Boot CD 15.2 to do scanning on pc with
> windows, but I struggle with cds because if I put it on a usb flash
> drive there is the risk of getting it infected when used. I searched for
> various methods to write protect a flash drive but there seem to be only
> one good method - flash drives with write protect switch, wich are very
> hard to find now.
>
> I read all about SD cards with card readers, filing the flash drive’s
> free space with zeroes, etc.
>
> What do you guys use as portable tools for disinfecting machines ? Flash
> drives ? cds ?
I built an image in SUSE Studio with clamav on it.
Jim
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Jim Henderson
openSUSE Forums Administrator
Forum Use Terms & Conditions at http://tinyurl.com/openSUSE-T-C
Anyone using the GUI klamav? Or does everyone work from the command line?
On 2014-03-28 00:56, konsultor wrote:
>
> Anyone using the GUI klamav? Or does everyone work from the command
> line?
I use clamav to automatically scan emails I get, that’s about all I do.
Sometimes I see a suspicious file and I use the command line to scan it.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 13.1 x86_64 “Bottle” at Telcontar)
ClamAV is a good choice, and you can add a manual scan option in the Dolphin context menu:
http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=137158&forumpage=1
(search and add it in Dolphin preferences - Services).
I am interested in scanning my own emails also but I have not figured out how to make my clamav to do this automatically. I am guessing it has a lot to do with your email client.
Right now I am manually doing any of these things.
Can someone help here.
On 2014-03-29 17:36, mike7757 wrote:
>
> robin_listas;2633514 Wrote:
>> On 2014-03-28 00:56, konsultor wrote:
>>
>>
>> I use clamav to automatically scan emails I get, that’s about all I do.
> I am interested in scanning my own emails also but I have not figured
> out how to make my clamav to do this automatically. I am guessing it
> has a lot to do with your email client.
My setup is complex. The scanning is done by amavis, which is really
designed for servers, or traditional unix type setups (I use fetchmail,
postfix, amavis, spamassassin, procmail, and dovecot).
You need something instead that is used directly with mail clients, such
as thunderbird, kmail, evolution… I have not investigated this type of
setup much.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 13.1 x86_64 “Bottle” at Telcontar)
I had a feeling this would go in that direction. I have 3 different ways to scan my machine but they are all on the manual side. Someone needs to get clamdrib a working again.
On 2014-03-29 19:26, mike7757 wrote:
> I had a feeling this would go in that direction. I have 3 different ways
> to scan my machine but they are all on the manual side. Someone needs to
> get clamdrib a working again.
Just google for “thunderbird and clamav”, and you find things. For instance:
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=39&t=379788
One post says that it is not possible and sends to a link at the clamav
site, to a dead link, and another post sends to another forum thread,
one using SuSE. Some of the links there are dead, too. They talk of
something called “p3scan”.
That was a 2006 thread, maybe there are better methods than what they
try to describe in that thread. Google it , there should be a plugin or
something somewhere 
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 13.1 x86_64 “Bottle” at Telcontar)
I went through them. there was even talk of editing clamdrib but that failed. Thunderbird changed something and clamdrib has been useless ever since. I can scan my system but it is on the manual side. I also boot into a bitdefender cd, that scans all 3 systems. I’m just wishing it was a bit more automatic.
Thanks