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SAVScan virus detection utility - check the errors after scanning the HD

A F2

Hi There! 

 

I am using Sophos AV on my Linux Mint laptop. 

I am sorry but I am pretty new here.

 

After scanning the internal HD I have the following message: 

1446402 files scanned in 1 hour, 9 minutes and 46 seconds.
2 errors were encountered.
No viruses were discovered.
End of Scan.

 

Cool! Now what I would like to do, without scanning the whole pc again, is extracting the 2 errors were encountered.

So, I can see if I need to take some extra action. 

 

Do you know if there is a way for doing that?

 

The command I used is: sudo /opt/sophos-av/bin/savscan -f -all -dn /

I rather the terminal shows the file it is scanning so I can have an idea if it is working or not. 

removing the option -dn looks me like the laptop is freezing and I do not like it. 

 

And more, I have the feeling that even using the option " / " the AV is not scanning the Windows10 partition. 

Do you know how I can be sure of this? 

 

Thanks in advance! 



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  • 0 in reply to Jasmin

    Jasmin said:

    Hi  

    The detailed logs of the scan will be available on the path /opt/sophos-av/log/scan.*.log. You can look into the appropriate scan file and check the logs for the error. 

     

     

    thanks onfortunately I do not have access to this foler 

     

    I am even trying to change the owner but I have this error message 

     

    *******:/opt$ ls -l
    total 28
    ******
    drwxr-x--x 19 root sophosav 4096 May 20 15:47 sophos-av

    *****:/opt$ sudo chown ***** /sophos-av/
    chown: cannot access '/sophos-av/': No such file or directory
    ********:/opt$ sudo chown ***** /sophos-av
    chown: cannot access '/sophos-av': No such file or directory

     

  • 0 in reply to A F2

    Hello A F2,

    you shouldn't fiddle with the permissions on these directories (especially as you are not very familiar with terminal commands on Linux - no insult intended). If you start a path with a slash then it's an absolute path. What you want is ****:/dir$chown **** subdir or ****:/dir$chown **** ./subdir. But as said, please don't make such changes.

    savscan doesn't write to this directory anyway, by default it writes to stdout but you use -p=<file> to request logging to a file.

    Christian

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