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02-24-2006, 12:28 AM
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Registered: Jun 2005
Distribution: Fedora 11
Posts: 68
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What kind of anti-virus softwares are available ?
I never thought of Linux will get into virus troubles.Unbelievbaly my computer crashed tow times a day(yestoday and today)!Maybe it like as Windows catching virus?Are there any anti-virus tools?Thanks.
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02-24-2006, 02:43 AM
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Registered: Dec 2004
Location: Malta
Distribution: Debian Sid
Posts: 866
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There is clamav.
However you may be jumping to conclusions. I'd look for a hardware fault first.
1. CPU temperature. Do you have lm_sensors working? Does your BIOS setup have a page which displays temperatures and voltages? Are all your fans working? is your heatsink clogged up with dust?
2. Ribbon Cables. Try unplugging and reseating all the ribbon cables. Better still, if you have spares, try replacing them.
3. Memory test. Reseating the memory may help. else test it. You can download docmemory(boots from floppy) or memtest86 (boots from CD)
4. Reseat all the cards.
Does the PC crash under reproducible conditions - program being run, time of day (not kidding), somebody using a power tool or domestic appliance etc.
I've personally encountered ALL of these (thankfully not on the same PC!)
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02-24-2006, 08:22 AM
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Registered: Sep 2005
Distribution: Debian
Posts: 304
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There is f-prot. I really enjoy it.
Also you should check logs.
In my opinion, until you are certain that there is a virus, you shouldn´t install an anti-virus. As davcefai showed, there are lots of things that can be happening.
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03-04-2006, 11:04 AM
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Registered: Apr 2005
Location: perugia
Distribution: ubuntu
Posts: 181
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90% of the times it's a kernel problem specifically with some internal hardware... try compiling a new kernel or installing another distro..
I never got a real unix virus in 6 years!!!
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03-04-2006, 01:47 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Dec 2004
Location: Lee, NH
Distribution: OpenSUSE, CentOS, RHEL
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It's not going to be a virus, but if you had bothered to search, you'd have found many threads referencing clamav.
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03-04-2006, 11:20 PM
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Registered: Jun 2005
Distribution: Fedora 11
Posts: 68
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Thanks all!It is really not a virus.It is a kernal problem and I fixed it.
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03-04-2006, 11:40 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: May 2004
Location: Sebec, ME, USA
Distribution: Debian Etch, Windows XP Home, FreeBSD
Posts: 1,445
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so clamav works on the full system? I was under the impression that is just scanned e-mail.
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03-07-2006, 04:54 AM
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Moderator
Registered: May 2001
Posts: 29,415
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so clamav works on the full system?
In you need on-access scanning you'll have to install something like Dazuko.
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