knoppix5.1 - clamav

[flaviusaetius2]

knoppix5.1 - clamav

i can´t find clamav ( antivirus ).
where is it?
how do i start clamav to update
the virus database and to scan
files downloaded from www?

regards
flavius-aetius

[rajibando]

Dear friends,
A message was posted in the forum by flaviusaetius2 on 2nd Jan 2007 with the same subject. But the reply is not there.
I know where clamav is in the CD, but do notknow how to run it.
Regards,
Rajibando

[rajibando]

To Siji Sunny
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date1 December 2008 14:18
subject Re: Knoppix 5.1 - clamav
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Dear Sunny,
Thanks. clamscan command works, but it says that the virus database file is older than 7 days, does not scan and exits. Is there any way to scan even with an old database and any folder on hard disk while booting from CD-ROM.
Regards
Rajibando

2008/12/1 Siji Sunny
Hi
Hope clamscan will solve your prblm


On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 10:05 PM user wrote:

Dear friends,
A message was posted in the forum by flaviusaetius2 on 2nd Jan 2007 with the same subject. But the reply is not there.
I know where clamav is in the CD, but do notknow how to run it.
Regards,
Rajibando

[hal8000]

To update the anti virus definitions open a terminal and run

freshclam

to scan for files in the windows directory of partition hda1

clamscan -i /mnt/hda1/WINDOWS

note that you need to know where the partition is mounted.
Mount it rw if you want any virus(es) removed

[Harry Kuhman]

.....Mount it rw if you want any virus(es) removed
And think very carefully about this and if you have good backups of all of the files if this is a NTFS partition. There is a good chance that doing this (writing, not scanning, which in itself is safe) on a NTFS partition will munge the partition. Knoppix, and Linux in general, does not have a good track record in writing to NTFS partitions and the default Knoppix drivers are not safe. I personally would use Knoppix to recover the files and then just do a fresh Windows install.