Questions tagged [clamav]
ClamAV is an open source (GPL) antivirus engine designed for detecting Trojans, viruses, malware and other malicious threats.
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What Regex syntax is used to specify include/exclude for clamscan
I just installed clamav on my linux system.
I intend to do a manual scan of the whole system from root (/). But there are directories I know should be skipped (e.g. /proc, /sys, /dev).
The clamscan ...
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ClamAV for streaming data
I have to ingest data in real time. It could be IoT data or event driven feed.
For real time data/streaming data, can I use clamAV?
All documentation points to a fact that clamAV scan file only.
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Debian server getting spammed through
This server has been live for many years, however, recently it is under attack by spam.
I have not been able to plug the hole they are using. It seems that the spam is using the sasl_username=clamav.
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What is CPUQuota PerSec and PerPeriod in systemd?
The manpage for systemd.resource-control says nothing about CPUQuotaPerSecUSec and little about CPUQuotaPeriodUSec.
It says nothing either about being set with the value 'infinity', as it is in the ...
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Parse ClamAV scan file
I'm completely new to ClamAV
I am setting up ClamAV on one laptop located behind VLAN and I don't have the option to monitor result.
Still I need to know the result of the scan hence I decided to ...
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Clamav-Daemon Does Not Write Pidfile
I am trying to configure Monit to monitor clamav-daemon. However, it appears that the /etc/init.d/clamav-daemon script does NOT actually write the pdifile to /var/run/clamav
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CPU Limiting & kswapd0 Advice Saught
Through hours of testing, I have found that the nextcloud desktop sync client for ubuntu 20.04 (appimage or ppa) both seem to have a bug to where... if a common nextcloud file sync error occurs , ...
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How to update an install of ClamAV on one VM that is offline after updating it on another VM that is online
The host OS Windows 10 and I it is running VirtualBox 6.1.12.
Guest OS 1 (VM 1): Ubuntu 16.04 headless server: Network Setting: Adapter 1 attached to Bridged : Network Setting: Adapter 2 attached to ...
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How can it be verified that ClamAV is detecting a particular malware?
I have ClamAV running and updating via Freshclam. How can it be determined if ClamAV's current signatures in daily.cvd are indeed detecting a particular malware item?
A very similar question was found ...
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ClamAV exclude on some signature does not work
I use ClamAV with 3rd party signature. So, in order to exclude some virus signature from scanning, I followed the official documentation to add a new .ign2 file like below:
cd /usr/local/share/clamav/
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Cryptic ClamAV results log file?
I installed ClamAV on LMDE4 and ran it using
sudo clamscan -ir ./ | grep FOUND >> /home/user/Desktop/clamscan_results.txt
The results file only contains the following:
Binary file /bin/ntfsfix ...
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Update virus definitions for a ClamAV Docker container
Does anyone know how to maintain a ClamAV container?
Specifically, it's the ClamAV container included with MailCow, but I'd like to use Docker more broadly as well, so how can I keep something like ...
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Scanning streamed data with clamav
I am trying to come up with a command with which I can scan a file by streaming it via network interface.
I have tried the following:
telnet clamd.server.com 3310
STREAM
PORT <some random ...
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How to scan with clamscan files owned by other users without using root?
I've got clamav installed on a headless Debian server. It is not running a mail-server so I do not have clamd (clamav-daemon) running. The server has a Samba share (/data) that various Windows 7 and ...
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yum install clamtk says no package clamtk available
I've looked through the yum install no package available different answers and I haven't found an answer. I'm following a tutorial and it said to run
sudo yum install clamtk
However when I run that ...
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Does clamd from clamav automatically scan the system by default?
I'm want to know this because i want to know if it's necessary to setup a cronjob with clamav or not.
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amavis: [virus_name_to_spam_score] is empty when using certain clam database
I have a weird behavior regarding virus_name_to_spam_score. I’m using 2 custom Clamav DB. Here are the logs when using SaneSecurity where we can see that everything is working fine:
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Does clamd scan memory during startup and/or restart?
I have an Ubuntu 14.04 using ClamAV to scan some files manually as part of some software. I have clamd running all the time and am using clamdscan to let it scan my files. Scanning the files is pretty ...
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upgrade ClamAV on CentOS: "Package clamav available, but not installed"
Hi I tried to upgrade ClamAV to latest version 099.2 (from 0.98.7). I ran:
yum update clamav
and I receive this message below and not sure what to do to have the upgrade done, thanks:
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How to hold session with ClamAV daemon?
I'm trying to connect to ClamAV daemon clamd on localhost 3310 port via telnet comand in terminal:telnet 127.0.0.1 3310
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to 127.0.0.1.
Escape character is '^]'.
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ClamAV in Linux [closed]
I have idea to use ClamAV in GPU. There are papers related to it. But I need to know is there any implementations regarding this? Will it work out?
If it is existing already, how to install it such ...
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Use ClamAV to scan large files
We have a Linux VM running Xubuntu with ClamAV installed.
We would like to scan files larger than 4Gigs, using the clamscan command preferably. I can use the --max-filesize=x and --max-scansize=x ...
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ClamAV continous scan
I want ClamAV to continuously scan some folder in my computer; i was thinking something like extremely low priority scan of all files (background scan), and some high priority scan over created/...
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ClamAV shows errors found, but how to find out what they are?
Amazon includes clamav-0.98.4 in its AMI version 2014.09.1 so I installed it and gave it a try on one of my EC2 instances.
After updating the definitions with freshclam, I've performed a scan with ...
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Disable Clamav / Amavis / SA in Postfix on Debian
I would like to disable Clamav / Amavis / SpamAssasin in Postfix on Debian Squeeze 6.0.8 as I have I outsourced my AV to other server.
I tried commenting content_filter and receive_override_options ...
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Why ClamAV can't scan some files?
Whenever I try to execute a ClamAV scan on a file in many of my bin directories, it fails with a
Can't open file or directory ERROR
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Email test deferred (mail transport unavailable) with ClamAV
I'm trying to set up a simple new mail server; when I send a test email to the server the email is getting hung up during delivery (user mapping is found) and the email is never found in /home/user/...
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How to open a clam antivirus database file
I want to read the contents of a .CVD file (Clam AV database file).
How can I do this? I tried deleting the first 512 bytes of the file and then rename it to .tar.gz but it won't open.
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