try www.free-av.com.
they have a linux capable virus scanner (it uses the dazuko engine) and can 
auto-update daily if set so.

I use it here and its been a real life saver. :)

Mage

On Saturday 31 January 2004 03:16 pm, Vaughn Treude wrote:
> On Saturday 31 January 2004 19:30, you wrote:
> > I got that a lot as well. started with my old cd/cd-r drive (thought it
> > was blown). howeverm replacing with a new emprex DVD/R, CD/r didn't solve
> > the problem. it works ok in windows on the same box, but for some reason,
> > linux (mandrake 9.1) seems to bitch about it.
> >
> > I am beginning to think its an OS/software related issue. did you
> > recently upgrade your OS?
> >
> > Mage
>
> No, this has been a Mandrake 8 box for well over a year.  I'd been having a
> hard time with a previous CD drive that seemed flakey - sometimes it would
> read a CD, sometimes it wouldn't.  I moved it to another box and eventually
> it failed there, so I threw it out.  It was old and slow so no big loss.
> This new CD/DVD drive worked well for quite some time, but I've had rare
> occasions when it had trouble playing a CD audio disk.  On a couple of
> those occasions, a gratutitous reboot fixed that problem.
>
> One thing I did see last week made me think I'd caught a virus - and maybe
> I did, but the problem seemed to go away and unfortunately I didn't pursue
> it any further.  What happened was that I suddenly couldn't access the
> Internet - but only on this box.  I could still ping the firewall box (it
> also runs Mandrake) and get to the web from other Linux and MS machines.   
> I ran "top" and discovered that kmail had gone crazy, was sucking up most
> of the system's RAM and was possibly trying to send an email to someone I'd
> never heard of. Of course, I may have accidentally replied or forwarded
> some piece of spam I was deleting.  Probably should look for a virus
> checker for this thing.
>
> Vaughn
>
> > On Saturday 31 January 2004 02:00 pm, Vaughn Treude wrote:
> > > Symptoms:  The drive mounts OK, but when I try to "ls" or "cd" it, the
> > > message is "bash: cd: /mnt/cdrom: Input/output error"  I've also
> > > noticed that in dmesg there are a number of CD-failure related
> > > messages, the most notable being:
> > >
> > > hdc: packet command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error
> > > } hdc: packet command error: error=0x54
> > > hdc: command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> > > hdc: command error: error=0x54
> > > end_request: I/O error, dev 16:00 (hdc), sector 64
> > > isofs_read_super: bread failed, dev=16:00, iso_blknum=16, block=32
> > > cdrom: open failed.
> > >
> > > And then that last one repeats a bunch of time.  I've tried to clean it
> > > I can't tell if the drive is actually trying to spin the cleaning disk.
> >
> > hmmmmmmmm
> >
> > > Another interesting symptom:  when I try to unmount the CD, it says:
> > > umount: it seems /mnt/cdrom is mounted multiple times
> >
> > haven't gotten this one yet.
> >
> > I am going to try both drives in another box. it could be a bad secondary
> > port (I hope not!).
> >
> > my suggestion, don't toss the drive just yet.
> > have it tested in another box.
> >
> > Mage
> >
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