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I seem to have picked up a virus on my usb stick. Doesn't affect it on Linux, but now, when I plug it into the computer at work to print something, I can't see any files. The anti virus on that computer seems to have blocked it or something.
What I can see on Linux is a load of hidden .lnk files to my original files. My original files are still visible and useable in Linux, but not in Windows
I have now downloaded clamtk and pointed it at my usb stick. Seems to have gone into overload, cpus are working at max for the last 15 minutes.
This first happened the other day, so I backed up the usb stick, ran gparted and repartitioned it. After that Windows at work could read it ok, it is FAT32, but then yesterday the problem occurred again.
root@pedro-bedro2:/home/pedro# freshclam
ClamAV update process started at Tue Nov 18 09:07:59 2014
WARNING: Your ClamAV installation is OUTDATED!
WARNING: Local version: 0.98.1 Recommended version: 0.98.4
DON'T PANIC! Read http://www.clamav.net/support/faq
main.cvd is up to date (version: 55, sigs: 2424225, f-level: 60, builder: neo)
daily.cld is up to date (version: 19645, sigs: 1263452, f-level: 63, builder: neo)
bytecode.cvd is up to date (version: 242, sigs: 46, f-level: 63, builder: dgoddard)
root@pedro-bedro2:/home/pedro#
I'll wait for the repo to update, and do a manual freshclam before I need to check anything. I don't normally use Windows at all, so I don't really worry about viruses much.
The works computer has AVG antivirus, so I can't understand how I got my usb stick infected. Unless it's hidden itself in some secret area that even Linux can't see and is still there.
Ermm, little problem.
I have my own computer in the office. I installed Ubuntu on it, but left Windows. Today I downloaded clamav and ran clamscan on the windows partitions. It came up with 13 infections.
----------- SCAN SUMMARY -----------
Known viruses: 3682159
Engine version: 0.98.1
Scanned directories: 21684
Scanned files: 117316
Infected files: 13
Data scanned: 19460.46 MB
Data read: 24817.12 MB (ratio 0.78:1)
Time: 3485.874 sec (58 m 5 s)
root@pedro-school:/home/pedro# man clamscan
root@pedro-school:/home/pedro#
How do I get rid of the viruses? Can I give clamscan a parameter to delete them?
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