dantose

Ok, so my grandmother's computer is currently all messed up after being borrowed by a cousin.

I tried virus scanning with knoppix 3.4, but it wasn't detecting the Eth0 device.

So I tossed in 4.0.2. Detected fine, downloaded the antivirus fine, but I'm having a hell of a time getting getting anything to actually install.

f-prot said it installed but would not run.

clamav kept looking for user clamav (which I then tried adding, to which I was told that it failed because it could not create the password)


Does anyone know either a virus scanner that plays well with knoppix or how to fix the issues I'm having here?


EDIT: Specifically, the error I get with clamav is
"checking for clamav in /etc/passwd... no
configure: error: User clamav (and/or group clamav) doesn't exist. Please read the documentation !"
upon giving the command $ configure while in the directory.

The command $ useradd clamav yeilds, "useradd: unable to lock password file"

Is there a way of manually adding clamav to the passwd file it's checking? will this fix the problem?

bigtomrodney

I never use any antivirus with Knoppix, but I do use Slax from a USB device with the relevent clamav/klamav modules. Runs scans fine. Also finds archives that break zip standards. Usually just finds java archives under that search though

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