Antivirus Scan on Linux finds 700 viruses!!

Software/antivirus

Today I wanted to try scanning my Arch Linux home folder with ClamAV.

I installed the ClamAV antivirus from AUR and added the ClamTk GUI to have a minimal graphical interface.

I then installed clamtk-gnome, a plugin to allow a right-click, context menu scan of files or folders in the Nautilus file manager, really very convenient.

After signature database update I left the PC on all night because I had accumulated so much material in all these years of Arch Linux…

At the end over 700 entities were detected, mostly PUAs “Potential Unwanted Applications” others related to Firefox profile and others that I am analyzing.

I had mounted the additional disks in the home so ClamAV also analyzed those and found many files in the trash folder that I had tried to recover in the past.

There are so many that I struggle to analyze them and the tool gives me the possibility to quarantine them only individually…

I was impressed by the quantity of these files and I am currently trying to find out what the various descriptions mean.