First of all, I am new to the forum and somewhat new to Debian, although having used Debian- & Ubuntu-based distros before. I am also new to the forum, and I have read both guidelines for this forum and what I am expected to have done before posting. I hope my question will be met with patience, and not hatred.
Secondly, my question. I installed 64-bit Debian 9 Stretch with the xfce desktop yesterday, and it works absolutely perfectly. However, I decided to run an anti-virus program yesterday to check for viruses. I used the program ClamAV, recommended to me buy some folks of the Linux community on YouTube. I let the program do it's job, scanning all files on my computer except the /sys folder, and save the everything into a .log file. When I woke up this morning and saw the results of the anti-virus scan, I was a bit surprised over the results. The summary reads as follow:
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----------- SCAN SUMMARY -----------
Known viruses: 6306876
Engine version: 0.99.2
Scanned directories: 15539
Scanned files: 171428
Infected files: [b]87[/b]
Data scanned: 12109.84 MB
Data read: 17542.61 MB (ratio 0.69:1)
Time: 3340.597 sec (55 m 40 s)
These "empty files" were mainly files found in the /usr/lib/libreoffice/share/extensions/ director, but there was also some Mozilla Firefox files in there (including /tmp/firefox-esr_robert/.parentlock), five files for the chat client Riot (all of those ending in the suffix "-journal") one for "orange" (the calender and clock service; /home/robert/.local/share/orage/orage_persistent_alarms.txt), and quite a few of files in /var/lib/sudo, /var/cache/cups, var/lib/systemd and /var/cache/debconf.
Unnecessary to say, I did not want to post all of the 87 empty files here on the forum for obvious reasons, but I can show them to you that would be helpful.
I would greatly appreciate any advice and help I can get.
/Robert A.
Debian 9 user.