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lifeforce4 05-25-2008 09:14 AM
Anti-virus that will scan partitions for windows viruses from linux?
 
This is a pretty simple question, and from what I have read the answer is mainly yes with some questioning. Windows and Linux have different architectures, I wanted to know would a Linux based anti-virus be able to detect and remove windows viruses on the windows partition?

Thanks,
Kyle

ErV 05-25-2008 09:24 AM
clamav is able to detect windows viruses.

lifeforce4 05-25-2008 09:26 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by ErV (Post 3164114)
clamav is able to detect windows viruses.
Ok thank you for clearing that up for me. When I try to run ./configure for clamav I am getting an error. What could be causing this? I ran more install but there is nothing I can see that would cause this to fail. Does clamav require its own user on the machine?
Code:
checking for readdir_r... support disabled
checking for ctime_r... yes, and it takes 2 arguments
checking for socklen_t... yes
checking for clamav in /etc/passwd... no
configure: error: User clamav (and/or group clamav) doesn't exist. Please read the documentation !
Kyle

ErV 05-25-2008 01:46 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by lifeforce4 (Post 3164116)
Does clamav require its own user on the machine?
Yes, but this can be disabled (see ./configure --help). By the way, you really should read clamav documentation - all this is explained there. As I remember, clamav requires some manual tuning that is not performed by "./configure && make" - settings for database updates, etc. So reading manual is required or highly recommended.

lifeforce4 05-25-2008 04:31 PM
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Originally Posted by ErV (Post 3164263)
Yes, but this can be disabled (see ./configure --help). By the way, you really should read clamav documentation - all this is explained there. As I remember, clamav requires some manual tuning that is not performed by "./configure && make" - settings for database updates, etc. So reading manual is required or highly recommended.
Ok thank you, I was trying to load the PDF but was having a problem with my network apparently. Now I have it, thank you for the information.

Kyle


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