Hi there, On Wed, 19 Jan 2022, colin course via clamav-users wrote:
i dont like the cron job because it saying as far as i can tell its excluding those directories not scanning them .
It's only excluding some directories, but if you wish you can just remove those exclusions. However it is only scanning one directory, and you don't seem to be complaining about that. To use ClamAV to best effect you need to have a fair idea of what you want to do and why you want to do it. You also need to have a pretty good plan to put into action for the time when something nasty is actually found (even if it wasn't ClamAV that found it :).
even if it did it would find zilch as there are no virus signatures on my laptop
Straying back onto the topic now. :) That's the part that we can most easily do something about. It will be baby steps, starting with the collecting of information. If you're up for it, start by telling me about the laptop. Exactly what is it, and how much memory and storage (hard disc, or whatever it uses instead of a hard disc) does it have? Exactly what is the operating system and exactly how was it installed? You say you've installed ClamAV and ClamTK too. Same questions as OS. Please be detailed and precise in your answers, or I'll just ask the same questions over and over again until you buckle. I should say I'm unfamiliar with ClamTK but I gather that it's more or less just a GUI interface to ClamAV. As far as possible I avoid GUI interfaces. I'd suggest you don't try to do anything at all with ClamTK until we've established that you have ClamAV properly installed with an up-to-date signature database, but at this point that's probably getting ahead of ourselves - let's work on the basic ClamAV installation first. It may take some time.
virus explanation started with a windows os there used to be a yellow banner across the top of the browser saying "there is a page slowing down your browser ...
Browsers often say that. Usually it's simply because the person who wrote the code for a Web page or site was incompetent. Sometimes it's because they're trying to use your computer (through your browser) for some purpose of their own but there's no reason to jump to conclusions without more information.
would you call a virus that can morph in to three different flies a virus ?
I really don't know what to make of that question. It doesn't give me anything like enough to go on. It's a bit like saying "would a cake that can morph into three different pies still be called a cake?". If you can give me some specifics I can try to give a better answer.
i thought i was getting rid of the binary files but they were changing into some other file choices ara a folder ,a binary file or a text abc file
Do not delete binary files (nor mess with permissions) until you understand what you're doing. By the sound of it you're a very long way from understanding how a Unix system works. If you mess with it without understanding it then you'll be a bigger threat to the system than the threats that you're imagining that you're protecting it from.
some are only obviouse because the are binary on a linux supposedly system and are tied in to the operating system took the tick out of the box for an excec file and systems monitor stopped working
Nothing is obvious at this point. I don't know what you mean by being obvious because it's "binary on a linux supposedly system". It sounds to me like you mean there shouldn't be binaries on a Linux system, and if that is what you mean then (a) it's nonsense and (b) you would give the impression that you've jumped to more conclusions.
there are nurmouse strange ocurrances i have wittnesed one that comes to mind is a tab flashing up and was gone in the blink of an eye
You don't have to worry about things like that. Most of the malicious software in existence goes to quite a lot of trouble to make itself at least very stealthy, if not undetectable. If you need to worry about anything, then it's about things that you can't see at all. That may be one reason for using a virus scanner - although in my view perhaps not a particularly good one.
did you work out the souce ? i hope that was understandable at least if i throw this down the rubbish C???? 64 or a 32 B?? swap the two parts and put them together
Sorry, you completely lost me.
... a rat ... in the corner of the room ... its wicked purpose ...
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