f-prot is a virus scan that you can install using synaptic. There is a GUI that works quite nicely but is a bit of a pain to install in Ubuntu. You need to do the following to get it to work:
- download the gui file from [http://web.tiscali.it/sharp/xfprot/xfprot-1.15.tar.gz]
- Untar it by either right clicking on it and extracting, or cd to the directory and go tar -xvzf xfprot-1.15.tar.gz
- It will create a directory called xfprot-1.15. The config.h file in there needs to be altered so that where it says local in 3 places it should say lib as in this example:
#define PATH_TO_F_PROT_BIN "/usr/lib/f-prot/f-prot"
#define UPDATE_CMD "/usr/lib/f-prot/check-updates.sh"
#define UPDATE_CMD_VER_4_1 "/usr/lib/f-prot/tools/check-updates.pl"
- Then you need to type (while in the xfprot-1.15 directory) ./configure
- Then make
- Then su into root and type make install.
- Once you have done that you should be able to type xfprot and the gui will show and you can select what you want to do. You probably need to make a text file somewhere where you can tell it to append the report from scanning. The GUI is pretty self explanatory though. You could edit your menu and add xprot instead if you wish.
Note that virus scanners are largely unnecessary on Linux, but sometimes you want to scan windows files. Another popular one is ClamAV, also available in Ubuntu.
