How would I go about scanning my email for viruses?
While viruses on Linux are generally requiring special privileges to run, one could still be sending an email from Linux with an attachment that could be affected by a virus, which would then spell doom for Windows users. To make things simpler, here is how you can scan your email for viruses.
Scanning email for viruses in Thunderbird
Scanning email for viruses in Evolution
Testing your email virus-scanning setup
- # Install clamav-testfiles # Email your account any of t/usr/share/clamav-testfiles
- /usr/share/clamav-testfiles/clam.cab
- /usr/share/clamav-testfiles/clam.exe
- /usr/share/clamav-testfiles/clam.exe.bz2
- /usr/share/clamav-testfiles/clam-v2.rar
- /usr/share/clamav-testfiles/clam-v3.rar
- /usr/share/clamav-testfiles/clam.zip