![]() If you have been using Windows Operating system, you will be familiar with antiviruses. In this blog we will discuss how to install and use ClamAV in Ubuntu. ClamAV is supported by the following Linux Operating Systems Ubuntu (16.04, 18.04), Debian (7,8), CentOS (6,7). One of its main uses is to scan emails on mail gateways. It can scan files quickly and can scan over one million viruses and trojans. It is used to detect trojans and malicious softwares including viruses. ![]() If you happen to know how it got installed (a site you entered, an email you received) we would be interested in trying to contract the virus for testing purposes.Clam AntiVirus (ClamAV) is a free and open source command line interface antivirus software program. If you truly believe you have a virus, we would be interested in looking into it. This could cause a virus scan to report a virus where there is none. thus, the things that virus scans look for are confused by it. It (CrossOver/Wine) is a replacement for the Windows libraries. If you believe or are worried you have an 'infected' bottle, you can simply remove that bottle and create a new bottle by reinstalling the applications that were installed in the old bottle.Īlso, be advised that CrossOver often causes a false read on virus scans. The only closing remark on this subject is that I will reiterate that not one of our many customers has ever reported a problem with a virus or other nasty beast on CrossOver. We don't recommend this because we don't feel it's necessary and it makes working with files awkward, but it is an absolutely safe method for those customers that are genuinely concerned. That would guarantee that no virus could harm anything outside of the 'jail'. Second, a Windows virus will generally only know of Windows file systems if it destroys your entire virtual C: drive, well that's very easily recreated and you've lost no data.įinally, if this remains a concern to you, using the managed multi user mode of CrossOver Professional, it would be straightforward to run CrossOver in a 'chroot' jail. Since CrossOver is meant to be run by a regular user, you're first protected by your own OS's proper user security system the virus cannot harm anything further than your user account. Third, even if a virus were able to be run, it will be constrained by the your OS as to the damage it can do. Most other applications do not suffer from virus risk most viruses come in through either a direct attack on your system (this is not relevant because you're protected by Linux as a whole), or via IE or Outlook. Outlook is another case, but in CrossOver, Outlook is prevented from running files with typical virus file formats. Candidly, we recommend only using IE for sites where Firefox does not work. Second, you're only vulnerable if you run vulnerable applications. We've run tests on a range of known viruses and not a single virus has been able to successfully execute its code. However, a wide range of factors exist so that we feel that it is far safer to use CrossOver than it is to run Windows.įirst, that exploited code running in memory relies upon a very exact operating system configuration it will try to use certain Windows specific commands and layouts to do its dirty work it is very unlikely to run on Linux or Mac OS because it is a foreign system. That is, if a virus exploits a weakness in Internet Explorer which allows it to upload code into memory and cause that code to start execution, then that same weakness will exist. The longer answer is that programs that are vulnerable to virii, such as Outlook and Internet Explorer will retain those vulnerabilities when run on Linux or the Mac via CrossOver. The short answer is that, in theory, a virus could affect a Linux or Mac system running a Windows program, but that it would require a pretty extremely unlikely scenario and it has not, to our knowledge, ever happened. ![]() People often wonder if CrossOver will be subject to as many problems with virus's and trojans as Windows is. I'm using version 7.1 ofĬrossOver and I have MS Office 2007 installed. Support/CrossOver/Bottles/winXP/system.reg. ![]() JS.Psyme-32 was found in /Library/Application I just ran a scan of my system using ClamXav (v1.1.1 - ClamAVĠ.94/8644/Mon Nov 17 15:35:21 2008 - ClamXav) and it says that
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