Online anti-virus scanner compatible with linux?

[mr.propre]

Hi,

Is there an online virus scanner (that can scan a single file or more) and that runs on Linux? It's for a windows exe, I want to scan it first before coping to a windows machine. Google didn't really help finding one ;-)

Thank you.

[sydbat]

Trend Micro has an online scanner (Housecall (http://housecall.trendmicro.com/)) that works with Linux (it is actually browser based so works anywhere). Not sure if it can scan only one file though...

[jrusso2]

I know Trend Housecall does it has two plugins one for Java which is for Linux and one for active x for Windows

[2hot6ft2]

Hi,

Is there an online virus scanner (that can scan a single file or more) and that runs on Linux? It's for a windows exe, I want to scan it first before coping to a windows machine. Google didn't really help finding one ;-)

Thank you.
If you just want to scan a single file you can upload it to here. http://www.virustotal.com/ and have it scanned by about 20 anti virus programs all at once.

If you want to scan a bunch you already have clamav installed and you can install the gui for it with.

sudo apt-get install clamtk
In a terminal
Applications>Accessories>Terminal

Then it will be in
Applications>System Tools>Virus Scanner

[abn91c]

AVG has a free linux version here: http://free.avg.com/download?prd=afl

[2hot6ft2]

AVG has a free linux version here: http://free.avg.com/download?prd=afl
That too IF you're running the x86 32 bit OS and also avast will work on the x86 32 bit system. Unfortunately neither one has a 64 bit version unless they've added it in the last few weeks. Both and more info can be found here. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Antivirus

[mr.propre]

Thanks for the replies, I don't really want to install an anti-virus scanner because normally i don't need one except for this one time occasion.

I tied housecall of trendmicro but for some reason my java crashes in firefox and Opera seems to have trouble selecting files.
I'm about to try virus total.

I you see "solved" it means it worked.

[binbash]

virustotal is great for that purposes, i am using it for a long time