On 10-08-31 04:23 PM, Mike Miller wrote: > On Tue, 31 Aug 2010, Matthew Unger wrote: > >> I second a vote for Clam. I use it on both my Debian and Win boxen. > > > Good to know. In Synaptic on Ubuntu it says something to the effect that > it is mainly useful for scanning email attachments. Can it also be used > to scan a directory tree? For example, I would like to be able to attach > a USB device to my Ubuntu box and scan it for infected files. Can I do > that with ClamAV? > Yes. Basic clamav can be run from the command line to scan a specific directory, and from the Ubuntu/Debian clamav-daemon package: This package contains the daemon and its command line interface, featuring: - fast, multi-threaded daemon; - easy integration with MTA's; - support for on-access scanning; - remote scanning; - able to be run supervised by daemon. -- Dan