Ok,
I have downloaded and installed it, and it has asked me to set up a user account for Clam, which I have done.
However, I cant get it to scan my entire drive, as maybe I am doing something wrong.
I know the clamscan command starts it scanning, but it will only seen to scan the current directory which you happen to be in at the time.
With F-Prot, you type f-prot / and it will scan the entire drive, including the windows partition.
Any ideas what I need to be typing with clam, to get it to do this?
Thnaks,
JRH
Hi,
The command you need is "clamscan -r /" without the quotes if you want to scan the entire system. -r stands for recursive.
Mostly however, I just scan my Windows partitions. I figure that if there's any trouble, that's where it's most likely to be.
However, the Law of Excremental Occurrences has just kicked in. Just tried to run a scan and got the following message:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] graham]# clamscan -r /
LibClamAV Error: cl_hex2str(): Malformed hexstring: 633a5c312e626174000000003a2a3a456e6162 (length: 97)373637300000053797374656d5c43757272656e74436f
LibClamAV Error: readdb(): Malformed pattern line 1617 (file /var/lib/clamav/viruses.db2).
ERROR: Malformed database.
----------- SCAN SUMMARY ----------- Known viruses: 21793 Scanned directories: 0 Scanned files: 0 Infected files: 0 Data scanned: 0.00 MB I/O buffer size: 131072 bytes Time: 1.545 sec (0 m 1 s)
This suggests that I have a corrupted virus database. Can I do anything about this or do I just have to wait until it it is updated?
Also, does anybody know how I can save the output of a scan to a text file as the output is not completely visible in the terminal window.
-- Graham Watkins
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