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Running Anti Virus in Ubu 8.10 to scan external Windows drives

Asked by Tirrex_Falcon

I have a device that allows me to connect 3.5 and 2.5 drive to my system via USB. I would love to be able to scan the connected drive for viruses before I go copying data and fixing the systems that I work on. ClamAV has been mentioned repeatedly that it a mail server AV so I am not certain if it is meant to scan HD's or just SMTP traffic. Is is just that CalmAV works great in a mail server setup and work good as an over-all AV solution or is it a one trick pony and I need to find something else to scan entire HD's with?

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Shane Fagan (shanepatrickfagan) said : 		#1

It can scan HDs too. Scanning your windows hard drives might not be the best idea. Clam AV is made for linux/unix systems and what it classes a virus might be something that isnt a virus in windows. Just scan with a windows based anti-virus program (AVG, Avast ...etc).

Hope that helps
Shane

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Tirrex_Falcon (matthew-tidd) said : 		#2

I am assuming that I would have to install Wine and run the Win-based through the emulator?

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Shane Fagan (shanepatrickfagan) said : 		#3

No I mean install it on your windows boot.

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Tirrex_Falcon (matthew-tidd) said : 		#4

Using Trinity Rescue Kit seems to work.