How to clean virus-infected files ?
Charles Howse
chowse at charter.net
Mon Jun 28 11:01:31 UTC 2004
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On Monday 28 June 2004 05:46 am, Alberto M R Davila wrote:
> Thanks Charles,
>
> Your reply is useful, my only question here is if the "--remove" option of
> clamscan will remove the virus or the file ? When I used F-Prot with the
> "rename infected files" it renamed my "Inbox.mbox" file... so I would not
> like to loose the file, but clean it ... I can hardly use my keyboard,
> every key I press do print extra characters.... any help ?
>
> Thanks a million,
No help on the keyboard issue. :-(
Read the manpage on clamscan...
# man clamscan
It will remove the infected file Be Careful.
The only files I have ever encountered with Linux are Microsoft type worms and
the like embedded in emails. I see no need to save them...?
- From the list you offered in your original post, it seems that is also all you
have, except for the 2 in //home/mine/win98. Why not just download one of
the free scanners and clean them from within Windows?
- --
Charles Howse
Jackson, TN
Registered Linux User # 347576 (http://counter.li.org)
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