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Camilia
September 4th, 2008, 03:12 AM
When I open up the clamtk cleaner this file is listed - Urlclassifier3.sqlite not scanned.

Does anyone now what this file is and why it doesn't get scanned?
owenll
September 4th, 2008, 03:22 AM
Apparently it holds information about phishing sites (http://ychittaranjan.wordpress.com/2008/06/27/urlclassifier3sqlite-woes-on-firefox-3/), but I don't know why it doesn't get scanned, sorry.

You could try googling Urlclassifier3
jamesrl
September 4th, 2008, 03:23 AM
Do you know where the file is? I don't have the file on my computer, so can't comment on it.

To find out you can type:
locate Urlclassifier3.sqlite

(if that doesn't give you a path, maybe try sudo updatedb to update the database that the command "locate" uses to find files).

From the filename, I would guess it is database that classifies URLs. URLs are internet addresses (eg. the following is a: http://www.somewebsite.com/~somedirectory/index.html ), and sqlite is a type of database (SQL is a language for asking a database questions (sending queries to retrieve)), and sqlite is a very basic database structure that uses the SQL language.

EDIT: Seeing the above post, I take back what i said. I should have also searched for urlclassifier3.sqlite (which is a different file with the capital letter in linux), which I do have as part of firefox in my profile.
hyper_ch
September 4th, 2008, 04:00 AM
it's a database created and used by firefox.
Camilia
September 7th, 2008, 01:52 AM
it's a database created and used by firefox.

Thus it doesn't need scanning?
OutOfReach
September 7th, 2008, 01:54 AM
Maybe the file is too big to be a virus?
hyper_ch
September 7th, 2008, 02:46 AM
you don't need antivirus on linux at all.
Camilia
September 26th, 2008, 02:13 AM
In the synapse it says clamav is only for email. Thus it doesn't address problems I have had in windows. I copied pictures for advatar and got trojan viruses. Seems the only thing close to spyware check, which helped in windows, is rkhunter.

My computer started running very slow. I had most items on flash disk so I just rebooted and put the ubuntu cd in. I don't know if it was a virus problem or that I had to many item on the security to slow down the computer.

Decided to use morzila noscript instead of a firewall and see if this prevents this from happening againl