Now it may be that I've missed something obvious here but I've got Clam installed but can't see anyway of running it, either with mouse clicks or otherwise. How do I do that? (Lucid, 10.10)
Bev.
On 23 Nov 11:03, Bev Nicolson wrote:
Now it may be that I've missed something obvious here but I've got Clam installed but can't see anyway of running it, either with mouse clicks or otherwise. How do I do that? (Lucid, 10.10)
Assuming clamav, then you might want to install one of the frontends, such as clamtk which will give you pointy clicky. Otherwise the name of the interesting binary is "clamscan" and the manual page for it is fairly good.
Cheers,
On 23/11/11 11:03, Bev Nicolson wrote:
Now it may be that I've missed something obvious here but I've got Clam installed but can't see anyway of running it, either with mouse clicks or otherwise. How do I do that? (Lucid, 10.10)
I've just upgraded my Mandriva installation to the 2011.0 version and realised after your question that I no longer have any anti-virus program running.
I've just installed it using the package manager. The only option given was clamtk. That's a front end to whole thing here as it installed clamav among other things. I then looked on the FAQ for clam and came across this - http://www.clamav.net/lang/en/faq/faq-troubleshoot/
Does that help? Or how about this? http://www.clamav.net/doc/latest/html/node28.html
When I used clam, I used it with KlamAV as a front-end (designed for KDE):
http://klamav.sourceforge.net/
ClamAV itself was only a command line tool that scanned a file you asked it to - it didn't sit in memory and scan all files that were being accessed, on its own. KlamAV uses dazuko to provide that sort of real-time on-access scanning, as well as a GUI component. I assume ClamTk is intended to do the same sort of thing tho when I looked at it a few years ago, it didn't seem anywere near as well-developed as KlamAV. I'm not even sure if it claimed to do on-access scanning.
I haven't used clamav for a few years, tho, and the desktop environments have changed a lot since then, so no idea which is better now, if it's a personal anti-virus solution you're looking for (as opposed to using clamav to scan email attachments etc.).
Peter.
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