ClamAV shows me 3 infected files. I ran clamscan -r
, which showed 3 infected files. Next I ran clamscan -v
, which showed these files:
/initrd.img: Symbolic link
/initrd.img.old: Symbolic link
/vmlinuz: Symbolic link
I have no clue what these 3 files are and if they're even viruses or not. I did some searching on google, but only found out that these files have something to do with networking and (or) kernel updates. Also, I read that these files regenerate in the system. Grateful if anyone can help me clean these files.
During scan I did not have any mounted external drives. My system dual booted with windows 8.1 with Ubuntu as the primary boot partition, so unless I don't select Windows in the grub, the system automatically takes me to Ubuntu.
The scan output:
kabir@kabirG50-80:~$ clamscan -v /
/initrd.img: Symbolic link
/initrd.img.old: Symbolic link
/vmlinuz: Symbolic link
----------- SCAN SUMMARY -----------
Known viruses: 3930644
Engine version: 0.98.7
Scanned directories: 1
Scanned files: 0
Infected files: 0
Data scanned: 0.00 MB
Data read: 0.00 MB (ratio 0.00:1)
Time: 7.834 sec (0 m 7 s)
kabir@kabirG50-80:~$
clamscan -r / shows
Infected files : 3
/bin/ntfscmp: OK
/bin/more: OK
/bin/busybox: OK
/bin/zcat: OK
/bin/zcmp: OK
/bin/bzip2recover: OK
/bin/gzip: OK
/bin/dnsdomainname: Symbolic link
/bin/rbash: Symbolic link
----------- SCAN SUMMARY -----------
Known viruses: 3930644
Engine version: 0.98.7
Scanned directories: 28035
Scanned files: 121737
Infected files: 3
Total errors: 20849
Data scanned: 3720.71 MB
Data read: 8006.27 MB (ratio 0.46:1)
Time: 635.037 sec (10 m 35 s)
kabir@kabirG50-80:~$
/vmlinuz
which is a symbolic link to/boot/vmlinuz
on both my Ubuntu systems.