ClamAv Installation

Clam AntiVirus is an open source (GPL) anti-virus toolkit for UNIX, designed especially for e-mail scanning on mail gateways. It provides a number of utilities including a flexible and scalable multi-threaded daemon, a command line scanner and advanced tool for automatic database updates. The core of the package is an anti-virus engine available in a form of shared library


Steps
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groupadd clamav
useradd -c "CLAMAV Owner" -m -d /var/lib/clamav -g clamav -u 40 -s /bin/bash clamav


cd /var/lib/clamav
mkdir {bin,db,log,run,template,tmp}
chown -R clamav:clamav /var/lib/clamav
chmod 700 /var/lib/clamav


./configure --prefix=/usr \
--sysconfdir=/etc \
--libexecdir=/usr/sbin \
--disable-clamuko \
--with-user=clamav \
--with-group=clamav \
--with-dbdir=/var/lib/clamav/db

Download latest version from

http://www.clamav.net/download/sources

wget http://freshmeat.net/redir/clamav/29355/url_tgz/clamav-0.92.tar.gz

tar -xvzf clamav-0.92.tar.gz

make

make install

Configuration file

/etc/clamd.conf