Antivirus For Linux!

These days I was dealing with some security related packages. I had gone through the changes to be made on IPTABLE to enhance the firewall, and a little bit about SELinux.I came to know about ClamAV, an anti-virus package for Linux..

Clam AntiVirus (ClamAV) is a free, cross-platform antivirus software tool-kit. One of its main uses is on mail servers as a server-side email virus scanner. The application was developed for Unix and has third party versions available for AIX, BSD, HP-UX, Linux, Mac OS X, OpenVMS, OSF and Solaris.


ClamAv has the following features!

1. a command line scanner
2. automatic database updater
3. scalable multi-threaded daemon
4. running on an anti-virus engine from a shared library
5. a Milter interface for sendmail
6. on-demand scanning
7. supports many document formats, including Microsoft Office, HTML, Rich Text Format and Portable Document Format.
8. It also support for Zip, RAR, Tar, Gzip, Bzip2, OLE2, Cabinet, CHM, BinHex, SIS formats, most mail file formats, ELF executables and Portable Executable files compressed with UPX, FSG, Petite, NsPack, wwpack32, MEW, Upack and obfuscated with SUE, Y0da Cryptor.
   

The ClamAV virus database is updated several times each day and as of 25 December 2008 contained 479,371 virus signatures.

Latest Stable Release:

Latest ClamAV® stable release is: 0.95.1
Total number of signatures: 545288
ClamAV Virus Databases:
main.cvd ver. 50 released on 15 Feb 2009 16:47 :0500
daily.cvd ver. 9274 released on 22 Apr 2009 13:17 :0400 (on 04/23/09)

Download the production quality stable release here

Download the latest virus database:

main.cvd ver. 50 released on 15 Feb 2009 16:47 :0500
daily.cvd ver. 9274 released on 22 Apr 2009 13:17 :0400

How to install clamAV in Debain ?

The Debian packages are maintained by Stephen Gran. ClamAV has been officially included in the Debian distribution starting from the sarge release. Run apt-cache search clamav to find the name of the packages available for installation.

You can also use one of the Debian volatile repositories to keep your ClamAV installation updated on your system.

Always choose the mirror near to you.
Edit /etc/apt/sources.list and add a line like this to it:

stable/etch:

deb http://volatile.debian.org/debian-volatile etch/volatile main contrib non-free

Then run apt-get update and apt-get install clamav
If you need clamd, you may also want to run apt-get install clamav-daemon

How to install clamAV in Ubuntu?

The Ubuntu packages are maintained by Ubuntu MOTU Developers. ClamAV has been officially included in the Ubuntu distribution since the first Ubuntu release. Run apt-cache search clamav to find the name of the packages available for installation.

The released set (release, *-updates, and *-security) are patched for security updates. Following extensive testing of clamav and the packages that use it in the backports repository, they may be updated to a newer version. These are official Ubuntu packages and supported by community developers.

The Ubuntu backports repository will contain the newest clamav version that has been at least lightly tested to work with that version. These packages can be installed by enabling the backports repository in your system. These are official Ubuntu packages and supported by community developers.

How to install calmAV in Redhat/Fedora ?

Two very good repositories are maintained by Dag Wieers dag at wieers*com:

http://packages.sw.be/clamav/

and Oliver Falk:

SRPMS: http://filelister.linux-kernel.at/?current=/packages/SRPMS/
FC devel: http://rpms.linux-kernel.at/?current=/lkernAT/fedora/core/development/i386
FC 3: http://rpms.linux-kernel.at/?current=/lkernAT/fedora/core/3/i386
RedHat 8.0: http://rpms.linux-kernel.at/?current=/lkernAT/redhat/extras/8.0/i386

How to install clamAV in Mandriva ?

Official Mandriva packages for cooker and supported updates (2006.0 and newer) are maintained by Oden Erikkson. For updates, use the software package manager or urpmi:

urpmi.update—update

urpmi—update—auto clamd

Unofficial packages for current and several older Mandriva distributions are maintained by Bill Randle and are available from his web server.

How to install clamAV in SuSe ?

Official SuSe packages for clamAV are maintained by Reinhard Max.

You can get it from here .

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