clamav scanning question


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i installed clamav & the gui front clamtk on ubuntu. i know how to fully scan my pc but should i enable quarantine as well ? i ran a scan last night and it said i had 4 viruses, how can i tell if there not just false positives ?

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It seems to me that clamav is not among the top performers in detection. Have you tried Trend Micro's "housecall" online scanner? It works on Linux.

Also, you can do a sudo apt-get install avast4workstation to install Avast (command line) and/or avastgui for a GUI scanner.

Like going to a doctor, I recommend getting a second opinion. :)

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It seems to me that clamav is not among the top performers in detection. Have you tried Trend Micro's "housecall" online scanner? It works on Linux.

Also, you can do a sudo apt-get install avast4workstation to install Avast (command line) and/or avastgui for a GUI scanner.

Like going to a doctor, I recommend getting a second opinion. :)

i agree, i quarantined the viruses then i couldn't boot into ubuntu until i restored the files. avast all the way for me now.

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