Does my Debian box have a virus?

[dario1977]

I recently reformated my main PC (WinXP Pro) and obtained a virus shortly thereafter (few days ago) when I downloaded a questionable item (won't go into details)..This virus wrecked havoc on my main PC.. actually; it's been a nitemare including my router dying and everything.. very bizarre. I never even thought it would infect my debian machine, and maybe it hasn't. Here are the details:

Upon checking free I see that I have 2% RAM left. Also I was able to install ClamAV but I can't run it for whatever reason.

SSH works...apache works..mysql works.. I can connect to the site through any of these services but the resources are blown out.

I don't have any active backups on this system which is my fault.. But what are my options? Any thoughts on what is wrong with system? IS it in fact a virus or is it something else?

[MJCfromCT]

I don't believe its a virus. On my Fedora machine, its 768 megs of RAM are oftentimes filled to capacity. Even when idling, when I run "top" I can see this. At first, I was concerned that this was some sort of memory leak, but a few linux gurus I know have told me that its quite normal for such a large amount of RAM to be utilized. That's just my $0.02.

[dario1977]

Thank you