How to test if a Linux virus can infect Ubuntu without any antivirus?

[Habitual]

They are designed to have a signature similar to a malware which is a false positive and that is known to trigger an anti-malware guard.

ClamAv is command line based and has no alerter or on access guard.

ClamAV doesn't clean either. Delete or Quarantine.
This 'anti-malware guard' notification must be specific to CAVL?

"Windows test virus"?
Eicar don't care about no Windows.

Have a Great Day!

[ventrical]

ClamAV doesn't clean either. Delete or Quarantine.
This 'anti-malware guard' notification must be specific to CAVL?

AVG for Linux also has the guard.(Thanks to VinDSL for his help with this)

"Windows test virus"?
Eicar don't care about no Windows.

Have a Great Day!

As I said the clamav-test files will be detected by the CAVL guard. If you use terminal and install them from the ubuntu-universe repositories:

sudo apt-get install clamav-testfiles

the CAVL guard will detect them as apt is trying to install them. There are six testfiles in all. It is rather remarkable what CAVL did with this. In the meantime it allows me to mount Windows hdds that are infected and does a fairly thourough cleaning. If you have a test hdd that had another AV program for Windows and has quarantined files on it CAVL will detect the quarantined malware.

It is a handy app for legacy malware control. So of course if you are using Wine or running Windows in a VM it is a good tool. In fact it will provide better protection for Windows in a VM than for Windows running stand alone with an AV program on bare metal.


Regards..