Dec 07, 2019 Yup, ClamAV is a command-line tool only but then there is a graphical tool ClamAV available to manage ClamAV. ClamAV is also cross-platform and is available for a host of desktop OSes including Windows and MacOS. Features At A Glance. ClamAV is not a real-time virus scanner. That is, it won’t scan files as you open them. Configuration Options: The following configuration options are available for clamav-0.103.3,1: ARC=on: Enable arch archives support ARJ=on: Enable arj archives support DMGXAR=on: Enable DMG and XAR archives support DOCS=on: Build and/or install documentation EXPERIMENTAL=off: Build experimental code ICONV=off: Encoding conversion support via iconv IPV6=on: IPv6 protocol support JSON=on.

1. Clamav Google Cloud
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Free & Best Antivirus for Linux servers is ClamAV. Email scanning, Web scanning and End point security are the few features which help secure your VPS, VDS or Dedicated Linux server. CentOS provides security such that threats are minimal but user actions can expose your server to tojans or virus. ClamAVs engine is capable of detecting 1 million viruses, worms, malware and other threads as claimed by ClamAV itself.

What are the Capabilities of ClamAV?​

1. ClamAVs database keep updating with latest discovered threads & viruses, with its advanced database updater you are always update to date with latest threats.
2. ClamAV scans fast and give you an option to remove infected files on the go.
3. Built in archive extraction capabilities scan compressed archives and protect against archive bombs
4. Major archive compressions ClamAV supports are : zip, rar, 7zip, gzip, tar, dmg, img, pkg … etc
5. for Linux, ClamAV provides real time protection, including ability to block file access until its scanned
6. Built in support for all Mail formats
7. Built in support for popular document formats including HTML, flash, pdf, MS Office, Mac Office

How to install ClamAV on Linux server or centOS​

Step by step tutorial to install ClamAV on centOS

Official Website

ClamAV® is an open source (GPL) anti-virus engine used in a variety of situations including email scanning, web scanning, and end point security. It provides a number of utilities including a flexible and scalable multi-threaded daemon, a command line scanner and an advanced tool for automatic database updates. Mar 30, 2019 ClamAV® is an open source (GPL) anti-virus engine used in a variety of situations including email scanning, web scanning, and end point security. It provides a number of utilities including a flexible and scalable multi-threaded daemon, a command line scanner and an advanced tool for automatic database updates.

Step 01 : ClamAV is not available on centOS default repo, you need to install special package ‘epel’ stands for Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux
yum install -y -q epel-release
Step 02 : Download and install clamAV from epel package
yum --enablerepo=epel -y -q install clamav-server clamav-data clamav-update clamav-filesystem clamav clamav-scanner-systemd clamav-devel clamav-lib clamav-server-systemd
Step 03 : update config file to replace examples
sed -i -e 's/^Example/#Example/' /etc/clamd.d/scan.confsed -i -e 's/^Example/#Example/' /etc/freshclam.confsed -i 's/^#LocalSocket /run/clamd.scan/clamd.soc/LocalSocket /run/clamd.scan/clamd.soc/' /etc/clamd.d/scan.conf

Official Documentation

Step 04 : Update ClamAV database
freshclam

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Step 05: start and enable the services
systemctl start clamav-freshclam.servicesystemctl enable clamav-freshclam.servicesystemctl enable clamd@scansystemctl start clamd@scan

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