What are the best antivirus soloutions for scannining USB drives for Malyware and Viruses?

Question

I have an old Win XP computer that was made in 2001 that can't connect to the internet and has no anti virus. Still works fine but I am wondering what the best way is to scan USB drives and files in Ubuntu for Windows Viruses and Malware before I connect them to the computer. I have tried a Windows alternative using wine but I had to reload Ubuntu trying to uninstall it.

So how can I scan for Windows malware using Ubuntu?

See also: "How do I scan for viruses with ClamAV?" – Dɑvïd Jan 27 '16 at 21:37 — Dɑvïd, Jan 27 '16 at 21:37

cl-netbox · Accepted Answer · 2016-02-02T08:55:39.280

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Install ClamAV - this AntiVirus and AntiMalware tool is available in the Ubuntu repositories.

ClamAV® is an open source antivirus engine for detecting trojans, viruses, malware & other malicious threats.

Open a terminal and execute :

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install clamav clamtk clamtk-nautilus

clamav is the anti-virus toolkit.
clamtk is the graphical front-end, a graphical user interface for clamav.
clamtk-nautilus is a Nautilus file manager plugin to allow right-click support for scanning.

edited Feb 02 '16 at 08:55

answered Jan 24 '16 at 11:06

cl-netbox

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ClamAv produces false positives. – SurpriseDog Jul 18 '19 at 20:53

What are the best antivirus soloutions for scannining USB drives for Malyware and Viruses?

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