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How To Install ClamAV on CentOS 6

r00t February 3,2015

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In this tutorial we will show you how to install and configuration of ClamAV on your CentOS 6 server. For those of you who didn’t know,ClamAV is an open source (GPL) antivirus engine designed for detecting viruses,malware and other malicIoUs threats on Linux. It’s easy to use and best for Linux based Web & Mail server. In this article,I will show you through the step by step installation of ClamAV on CentOS 6.x from source.

Install ClamAV on CentOS 6

Step 1. First add yum repository your system.

The EPEL repo is enabled by simply installing an RPM. Please use the command below to install the EPEL repository on your CentOS server.

#CentOS 6 � 32-bit rpm -Uvh http://mirror.overthewire.com.au/pub/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm #CentOS 6 � 64-bit rpm -Uvh http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm

Step 2. Install required ClamAV packages.

yum install clamav clamd

Step 3. Start the clamd service on system boot.

chkconfig clamd on service clamd start

Update ClamAV’s signatures:

freshclam

Step 4. Configuring daily scan.

In this example,I will configure a cronjob to scan the /home/ directory every day:

nano /etc/cron.daily/clamav_scan

Add following piece of code into clamav_scan file.

#!/bin/bash SCAN_DIR="/home" LOG_FILE="/var/log/clamav/manual_clamscan.log" /usr/bin/clamscan -i -r $SCAN_DIR >> $LOG_FILE

Give our cron script executable permissions:

chmod +x /etc/cron.daily/clamav_scan

Congratulation’s! You have successfully installed ClamAV. Thanks for using this tutorial for installing ClamAV in CentOS 6 system. For additional help or useful information,we recommend you to check the official ClamAV web site.