#freshclam

How to Install ClamAV on CentOS 7

ClamAV is an open source antivirus tool. Its basic usage is for detecting viruses, malware, and malicious software on Linux-based machines. The threat from viruses, Trojans, and other forms of malware is real. They have grown exponentially in both quantity and in sophistication, and antivirus software have had to adopt sophisticated detection methods.

While there’s no guarantee that your system…

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Install ClamAV antivirus software CentOS 6

Install EPEL repo:

For CentOS 6 32-bit execute command: rpm -Uvh http://mirror.overthewire.com.au/pub/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm

For CentOS 6 64-bit execute command: rpm -Uvh http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm

Install required packages:

yum install clamav clamd

Start the clamd service and set it to auto-start

/etc/init.d/clamd on chkconfig clamd on /etc/init.d/clamd start

Update ClamAV’s signatures:

/usr/bin/freshclam

Note: ClamAV will update automatically, as part of /etc/cron.daily/freshclam.

Configure daily scan

In this example, we will configure a cronjob to scan the /var/www directory every day. Create cron file:

nano /etc/cron.daily/man_clamscan

Add the following to the file above. Be sure to change SCAN_DIR to the directory that you want to scan:

#!/bin/bash SCAN_DIR=”/var/www” LOG_FILE=”/var/log/clamav/man_clamscan.log” /usr/bin/clamscan -i -r $SCAN_DIR >> $LOG_FILE

Give our cron script executable permissions:

chmod +x /etc/cron.daily/man_clamscan

ClamAV on openSuse

ClamAV is a good antivirus software for Linux. Do you need it? Linux is a very safe operating system, but sometimes it’s good to check if everything is OK.

You can find ClamAV in your operating system repository. On openSuse, I just use…