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cannot find virus checker..ubuntu newbie..also having trouble when booting...plx help

Asked by allysmart

Upon booting ubuntu ..screen goes to a dos like screen and takes along time to get going..
when it does let me in to login it takes some time...intro music plays ...yellow screen....screen saver activated and then froze...restarted it and ran in recovery mode....asked to fixed problems and of course i said yes...got into my user...seems to be working fine...but evertime i start it up again goes thru same thing....am a newbie as an administrator....wanted to check for virus' as some of the mp3's downloaded wouldn't work...got an error..thought maybe this was causing the problem but cannot find my virus scanner..help would be greatly appreciated..don't want to take this back to my father who built this for me ...lol...thanks so much....

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arochester (arochester) said : 		#1

How much RAM have you got?

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allysmart (allison-s-8) said : 		#2

ahh...i think dad put in a 40gb drive....but that's different isnt it...i feel like such a dummy....i know it means random access mem...but *sigh*

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allysmart (allison-s-8) said : 		#3

looking firstly for a virus scanner

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allysmart (allison-s-8) said : 		#4

also has audio disk on desktop....no disk in either drive

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arochester (arochester) said : 		#5

Open a terminal. Type in it: free . Copy and paste the result here.

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allysmart (allison-s-8) said : 		#6

            total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 775276 568736 206540 0 14204 303124
-/+ buffers/cache: 251408 523868
Swap: 1694816 0 1694816

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allysmart (allison-s-8) said : 		#7

am cleaning out some things that i dont need to free up some space if that's what the problem is...which is seems to be....no reply after i dunno...at least 1 1/2 hours...dad told me to beware of how much stuff i put on here until i can get more memory...so for now..no silly games taking up space...maybe that will help huh? thanks for taking your time to try and help me
ams

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Best arochester (arochester) said : 		#8

I know I have 512 of RAM. "Free" says 515580 . 775276 suggests you have about 775 of RAM which should be enough to run without problem. A puzzle that it is so slow.

Your MP3s probably don't have a virus. Have you installed ubuntu-restricted-extras?

"Commonly used restricted packages
This package depends on some commonly used packages in the Ubuntu
multiverse repository.

Installing this package will pull in support for MP3 playback and decoding,
support for various other audio formats (gstreamer plugins), Microsoft fonts,
Java runtime environment, Flash plugin, LAME (to create compressed audio files),
and DVD playback.

Please note that packages from multiverse are restricted by copyright
or legal issues in some countries. See
http://www.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/licensing
for more information."

If you don't have it installed then connect to the internet, open a terminal and input: sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras

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allysmart (allison-s-8) said : 		#9

seems to have helped...will see what happens tomorrow...thanks for the assitance
asmart

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allysmart (allison-s-8) said : 		#10

Thanks arochester, that solved my question.