Hi,
I am looking for a portable antivirus programme that will run under UBUNTU.
I have looked at Clamav, but I am not sure if it is portable.
Any suggestions please.
Thanks
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then you take the clamav for ubuntu, this runs under ubuntu.
If it is not for linux, then it will not run under linux, except as many windows programs will run via wine which is standard installed in ubuntu.
Just stick the usb flash in and run the portable clamwin, you will imediately see if it works or not.
Otto Sykora
Basel, Switzerland
Hi,
I do not have Wine (running UBUNTU from a LiveCD). Clamwin does not run.
Is Clamav portable. Can it be run from a pendrive?
Thanks
A
well there is not much to have portable under linux, only few apps so far.
I am not sure how are you going to obtain the clamav for linux and copy it to a stick. It may exist, but so far I got it either as packet from the repository of a particular distribution or as source code.
Well yes, you can compile it yourself and have all the libs needed with it on a media, this might do it, but can not see how are you going to get it from ubuntu repository and install it on something else then ubuntu itself?
Are you planning to get it from net as source and compile it yourself?
You can sure install on some ubuntu installation apt-on-cd and by this program you can download packages completely and use them for installation without internet connection. Such packet could be extracted, and since it contains all needed, it could run portable provided some structure is kept in the folders, but such thing you would have to test, it is not supposed to be done this way.
So if you found a way to get clamav , then just test it and you will see.
But for getting the executable itslef, you better ask in ubuntu forum or in the clamav forum, they might show you where such thing can be found.
Otto Sykora
Basel, Switzerland
Clamwin is windows only. So the only way to run it under Ubuntu is to install WINE and run it via WINE.
ClamWin is based on ClamAV. There is a version of ClamAV included in the Ubuntu repositories so you could use this instead.
This are the 2 options you have.
If you run an Ubuntu-live-cd, things might be a little difficult because you'd have to install it anew every time you run it again.
Oh and there is another topic about this here.
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why would you use an antivirus for ubuntu you don't need one it does not have the viruss like windows and it might screw up ubuntu
Well if you are running Ubuntu from a live CD, then there is no reason to have an antivirus program in the first place since all your settings and stuff will be reset, unless of course, your store settings on a drive. Then well, you can have Clamwin (Portable) work on Ubuntu by installing Wine. You install wine by going to Applications -> Add/Remove... and searching "Wine" then install it and then go to PortableApps.com and download Clamwin Portable and try running it (right click on ClamWinPortable.exe and choose "Open with Windows Application Opener" (or something to that extent). I'm not sure if it will work, but what have you go to lose?
I have never tried doing that but that is exactly how I would go about solving that problem.
I think also that the reason there aren't really any anitvirus programs for Ubuntu out there is because no one bothers to create viruses for Ubuntu in the first place, and thus, hardly anyone would have a need for an antivirus program.
clamwin will not work under wine , this is true.
Otherwise ubuntu has clamav in its repository (clamav is in fact linux origin, the clamwin is just a port of it), and there are other linux antivirus tools, f-prot, avast, AFAIK avira too, and probably many others. It is just that portable things under linux are not so simple and therefore it is mostly better to remaster the linux live cd for such things rather then to have to install it each time to the ramdisk again.
Otto Sykora
Basel, Switzerland