unable to get antivirus or mount usb stick

[firenice03]

firenice03, I think we're there, & I'm running a scan now. Getting the warnings you did. I'll update when it's finished.

Good to hear

The original Scan took sometime to run too - I find the modified to run much better (less errors and quicker)

Code:

sudo clamscan -ir --exclude-dir=^/sys --exclude-dir=^/dev --exclude-dir=^/proc | grep FOUND >> /home/yourusername/virus-scan-report.txt

[pingball57]

Well it appeared to finish OK but I can't find any virus-scan-report.txt in my home folder. Normal? or is this just more of the same 'things not doing what they should'. I've had an inordinate amount of this lately.

[firenice03]

Well it appeared to finish OK but I can't find any virus-scan-report.txt in my home folder. Normal? or is this just more of the same 'things not doing what they should'. I've had an inordinate amount of this lately.

It should mines empty thou...
Make sure you changed the YOURUSERNAME to your name (jpa)
/home/yourusername/virus-scan-report.txt
to
/home/jpa/virus-scan-report.txt

So the full new command (excluding directories)

Code:

sudo clamscan -ir --exclude-dir=^/sys --exclude-dir=^/dev --exclude-dir=^/proc | grep FOUND >> /home/jpa/virus-scan-report.txt

[bitsnpcs]

bitsnpcs - this problem went away by itself. To start with it wasn't even recognizing there was a stick in the slot. Then after a few retries with various sticks I got a ghost icon on the desktop & a prompt to enter my password to mount it. I can't remember the exact wording. I didn't want to do this until I knew what was going on hence the anti-virus route. The sticks worked on my other two laptops. The next time I booted up everything worked as normal, so who knows what was up? Thanks for your interest.

Good to read that part is solved