Once this is done, we want to open Clamtk which typically is found under the Accessories menu of your applications kicker.įrom here, click on Settings, and check all of the boxes except the last one.
The first things we are going to want to do, are make sure that both ClamAV and the updating service freshclam are started, will start automatically. Set ClamAV for daily scans, and keep virus definitions updated
If you are running a Debian/Ubuntu based distro: There are also instructions for other distros such as Gentoo, Fedora and OpenSUSE there as well, as well as Solaris, BSD, and MacOSX. If you prefer to build from source, you can download ClamAV from their homepage here. In this article I will give examples on how to install them via Debian/Ubuntu based systems, as well as Arch based systems if you’re running a distro outside of this range of choices, you may need to change the commands we are going to use to your package manager specific commands, or use your GUI package manager if you have one. Most server administrators will tell you they run ClamAV on their production machines so why not run it on your home machine too? Installing ClamAV and Clamtkĭepending on your OS flavour of choice, you can go about installing these packages a couple of different ways. If you have any queries on your mind or are facing some issue while installation, please do let us know using the comment box down below.I would estimate that probably 95% of desktop GNU/Linux users do not use any kind of antivirus software, and generally speaking you would more than likely be safe in doing so.However, if you are the type to err more on the side of caution, you may want to know how to install something to ease your mind in this regard.ĬlamAV is an open-source antivirus and malware application for GNU/Linux as well as other systems including BSD, Solaris, and even Microsoft Windows. That completes our tutorial on setting ClamAV & its GUI frontend, ClamTK. You can also excute the above mentioned command to start a scan from your teminal or if you want to start a scan using GUI, use ClamTK. Here ‘/home’ is the directory that will be scannned & ‘/var/log/ClamAV/daily_scan.log’ is the file where logs for the scan will be created. usr/bin/clamscan -i -r /home > /var/log/ClamAV/daily_scan.log & will add the following line to the file To do this, we will create a file named ‘daily_scan’ under ‘/etc/cron.daily/’ , To setup a daily scan, we can create a cron job that will be executed daily on systems. $ sudo dpkg -i clamtk_5.25-1_all.deb Setting up a daily scan To get the packages files, visit ClamTK Official Website & under the download section, you will the package file for CentOS 6 & 7 and for Ubuntu as well, along with other Linux distributions.ĭownload the required file & install it using rpm,
& we will have ClamTK installed on our systems but if for some reasons its not installed, we can also grab the rpm & deb files from the ClamTK websites.
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