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Clamav commands

Asked by William Pabon

Hi:
I'm totally newbie to clamav AV and have a few questions:

1. How can I check that the clamav-daemon is working? If not, how do I start it up?
2. What is the terminal command to do a manual scan?
3. How do I check, after boot up that clamav is active?

Thanks

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ClamAV

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William Pabon (williepabon) said : 		#2

andrew:

Read the documentation suggested but couldn't find the commands, either to start the daemon or to see if clamav was active. Thanks in advance for the help.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#3

ps -ef | grep clam | grep -v grep

Will show if its running.

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William Pabon (williepabon) said : 		#4

andrew:

Here is the result. Please, explain it to me. Thanks

william@Raquel-ThinkPad-SL400:~$ ps -ef | grep clam | grep -v grep
clamav 1815 1 0 10:57 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/clamd
clamav 1927 1 0 10:58 ? 00:00:05 /usr/bin/freshclam -d --quiet
william@Raquel-ThinkPad-SL400:~$

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#5

clamd is the live scanning running
freshclam is the updater.

You do realise you don't need antivirus in Linux unless you are running a fileserver with Windows clients, or are running an email server.

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William Pabon (williepabon) said : 		#6

andrew:

Thanks. I agree with you abt the need of antivirus. Probably, I'm a bit paranoid. My doubts about if clamav is running come because I can't identify any process in the process list that I may associate it with clamav.

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William Pabon (williepabon) said : 		#7

andrew:

How do I stop (or start) the clamav-daemon? Thanks.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) said : 		#8

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