Antivirus Scanner for Linux

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Mario Thiel

Hey guys, i wanted to know if anyone of you could prefer me a good and
secure antivirus programm for Linux. I am running Mandrake 9.1 ...
 
Really only useful for stopping viruses from being forwarded to your
windows owning clients but f-prot fits the bill.

http://www.f-prot.com/download/home_user/download_fplinux.html
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Whole-heartedly second this opinion of F-Prot usage.. however, completely
disagree with it "really only useful for stopping viruses from being
forwarded to your windows owning clients".. F-Prot handles a fair number
of ELF infectors and various other *nix related virus / trojan / worm type
files.



Regards,

Ian
 
Mario said:
jafar wrote:



Hey man,

can you tell me how to install the file? I dont know the exact command in th
shell. The name of the file is fp-linux-ws.tar.gz and its in
home/donkey/Documents .
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man gzip

man tar

and if they don't turn up anything you'll probably have to hunt them
down and install them... gzip is a compression program, tar is an
archiver, using them together produces a compressed archive (much like
what you'd get with pkzip on a dos machine...
 
can you tell me how to install the file? I dont know the exact command in th
shell. The name of the file is fp-linux-ws.tar.gz and its in
home/donkey/Documents .
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Look up the command options in the tar man page. -z will unzip the
file while un-tarring it so you don't need to do two steps to
decompress and then unarchive it.

Change to the directory where the program is installed. Run
"./configure" (that's DOT SLASH Configure) (i.e., run the configure
script in the current directory), then do "make", then "make install".

You might want to examine the configure script to see if there are any
interesting options. Sometimes --help or --options will show them.
There is usually a --prefix=<dirname> to allow installing the app in
the specified directory instead of the default. Unless you know that
will work, let it install where the programmer wanted it.
 
can you tell me how to install the file? I dont know the exact command in th
shell. The name of the file is fp-linux-ws.tar.gz and its in
home/donkey/Documents .
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It will be something like this.

gzip -dc fp-linux-ws.tar.gz | tar -xvf -
cd fp-linux-ws
../configure
make
make install


Jim.
 
It will be something like this.

gzip -dc fp-linux-ws.tar.gz | tar -xvf -
cd fp-linux-ws
./configure
make
make install
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On second thoughts, it probably won't.

I was thinking it was a port but it's probably a package. I was fooled
by the conventional .tar.gz suffix.


Jim.
 
Ok i got this problem fixed. I also did my first scan with the command line
f-prot -verno
f-prot /home

So now it shows me the infected files, but how is the command to delete
them? Or is there a way to configure f-prot to auto delete them? I also
cant find nothing in the readme of f-prot for this.
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From the f-prot website Unix faq at
http://www.f-prot.com/support/unix/unix_faq/index.html


F-Prot Antivirus doesn't disinfect/delete the infected files

If F-Prot Antivirus does not disinfect/delete the infected files, the problem may be one of the following:

1. You do not have write access to the infected file

2. The infected file is an archive. F-Prot Antivirus does not support extracting file objects from archives, disinfecting them and then re-inserting them to the archive.

3. If the infected file is an office document the file will not be
deleted, to avoid the loss of work.
 
Ok i got this problem fixed. I also did my first scan with the command line
f-prot -verno
f-prot /home
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Ahh. I see. By just using f-prot /home without giving options just gives
a report. If you type man f-prot you can read a quick manual for all the
options. eg. f-prot -disin /home will disinfect where possible.
Have fun! :)
Oh, btw, why did you not just download the .rpm instead of the .tar
archive? You could just install with urpmi fp-linux-ws.rpm or even rpm
-ivh fp-linux-ws.rpm. Much simpler that way ;)
 
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Mario said:
Hey man,

can you tell me how to install the file? I dont know the exact command in
th shell. The name of the file is fp-linux-ws.tar.gz and its in
home/donkey/Documents .
Click to expand...

Ok i got this problem fixed. I also did my first scan with the command line
f-prot -verno
f-prot /home

So now it shows me the infected files, but how is the command to delete
them? Or is there a way to configure f-prot to auto delete them? I also
cant find nothing in the readme of f-prot for this.
 
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