Kommentarer på: Anti-virus on a stick: SLAX + F-Prot

Av: Carl-Erik

Carl-Erik — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:22:48 +0000

Sorry, but this is a different thing. Try asking in the Slax forums.

Av: Alarm

Alarm — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 04:19:35 +0000

I have try to follow the instruction of installing f-prot for linux 6.0.2 but when come to updating virus definition, its failed. The error msg shows:

Warning: Network – Operation timeout
Warning: Network – Operation timeout
Warning: Network – Operation timeout

I know what the problem. This is because of proxy. But how to setup the proxy in this case.

Av: Carl-Erik

Carl-Erik — Mon, 19 May 2008 15:06:41 +0000

OK, taken care of now. Although I am not the first to make this mistake (run a google search for “f-secure f-prot”) … Thanks for the comment, though.

Av: Friðrik Skúlason

Friðrik Skúlason — Mon, 19 May 2008 14:46:22 +0000

“F-Secure’s mailserver/workstation package” ???

Please…. F-Secure has nothing to do with F-Prot today.

Av: Carl-Erik

Carl-Erik — Tue, 13 May 2008 10:01:11 +0000

I just found out about KlamAV – a KDE front-end to clam-av. It makes clam-av a lot more useful by actually implementing quarantine and deletion measures. You can get it for SLAX by googling “klamav slax”. One click and it is installed. Works great, and when it comes to virus scanners: the more the merrier

Found a SLAX package here, but it might not be valid by the time you read this …

Av: Carl-Erik

Carl-Erik — Mon, 12 May 2008 19:59:57 +0000

On second thought, packing some of the other virus scanners might not be such a bad idea. If you let F-PROT take out the worst, and then run clam-av, AVG, and/or Avast! you will probably be able to find the last remaining buggers, which you can then manually delete. There probably won’t be too many remaining, so deleting by hand should be doable.

Av: Carl-Erik

Carl-Erik — Mon, 12 May 2008 19:31:51 +0000

I had run some proof of concept tests at my own machine use the EICAR “virus”. This weekend the first real world test was tried on a friends computer, and I have to say it wasn’t 100% successfull, though I thought so at first.

F-PROT found 7 viruses, trojans, and backdoors, of which all were deleted, and also found some program that it meant was a security risk; a program that let other people see what is going on through your webcam – without you being there. Now why would anyone want that?

Anyway, after the scanning and disenfectioning was done (took about 2 hours on her 30 gigs of data) we started the machine up. First thing that comes up is Avast! Anti-virus saying it has found some virus (some dll file). Great – just the problem she had earlier …

So although f-prot found a bunch of viruses, it didn’t catch them all. Maybe upping the heuristics option, or perhaps running AVG to dig some extra, would have helped, but we ended up just wiping the whole disk and reinstalling XP and SP3. Lots of work for nothing, one might say …

Will try running it on another fucked up computer on Friday. Maybe that will be more successfull.