Scan for viruses

Though , Ubuntu is virus free , you can use antivirus to clean your home and others also ;)


Its know as "clam" antivirus , find more about it on http://www.clamav.net/


Rather on Ubuntu apt:clamav


And run clamscan , output will be something like



----------- SCAN SUMMARY -----------


Known viruses: 486857


Engine version: 0.94.2


Scanned directories: 1


Scanned files: 65


Infected files: 0


Data scanned: 14.10 MB


Time: 15.784 sec (0 m 15 s)



By default it scans the current directory , but you can :


(0) Scan a single file: clamscan file


(1) Scan a current working directory: clamscan


(2) Scan all files (and subdirectories) in /home : clamscan -r /home


(3) Load database from a file: clamscan -d /tmp/newclamdb -r /tmp






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