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[Tom <question77756@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Question #77756 on klamav in ubuntu changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/klamav/+question/77756

    Status: Open => Answered

Tom proposed the following answer:
It's better to run antivirus from a command-line.  There is a gui that
you can install as a front-end to it but i can't remember what it's
called and wouldn't advise using it anyway because it just gives 1 more
thing that the antivirus would have to workaround and be unable to deal
with if the gui front-end got infected lol.  Oh, i've had a look around
and it seems that klamav is a gui front-end for clamscan!

Wow, i'm glad you asked this because i've just found that i hadn't
installed an anti-virus on this hard-drive at all! lol, i've just
installed it now :) Hmm, the 'quick help' was a lot longer than normal
so i had to add  " | more" to the end so i could read the beginning part
easily

clamscan -h | more

Hmm, that didn't help much but i found from 
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ClamAV
that to update the virus definitions i needed to run

sudo freshclam

this gave me a warning that i didn't have the ultra latest clamav but as
i do have the latest one that is in the Ubuntu repos (the same version
as you) i think this is ok.  It even said don't worry.  Anyway, getting
the latest antivirus definitions is the main thing :)  Next it's time to
use the advice from

clamscan -h | more

to run this on your machine

clamscan --move=/home/john/Documents/Quarantine

on my machine that's

clamscan --move=/home/tom/Documents/Quarantine

I hope this helps!
Good luck and regards from
Tom :)

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