

This calls on clamscan to remove any virus it finds, show you only infected files, to act recursively by running through every subdirectory of you home directory.

If you'd like to scan your home directory (all your user files), you'd type something like clamscan -remove=yes -i -r ~/ Your computer will know you're a super user because you just typed in your password a few seconds ago. Now that you've installed the software, you need to update the files that it uses to identify viruses. This will tell the computer that a "super user" is telling it to install the clamav virus scanning software. In that window, type sudo apt-get install clamav. If you're feeling up to it, open a terminal window by typing Ctrl+ Alt+ t. If you're new to Linux, this is the perfect time to try out the command line interface, because it works well, and it's hard to screw anything up. You can install it from the repositories using the software center. To scan for viruses on Linux, you'd us clamav.
