Questions tagged [clamav]
ClamAV (Clam anti-virus) is a suite of programs designed to detect malware, viruses, trojans, and other threats. It be run from the command line or as a daemon, and can integrate with mail servers to scan email attachments. It is open source and published under the GPL.
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How to scan automatically with ClamTk?
I'm using following command to scan my notebook with Clam, however, I'm curious about if there is a command that automatically set a scan time with ClamTk.
I learned the following command from a video,...
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freshclam problem
I have clamav all installed and freshclam is working after I do:
cd log
sudo mkdir clamav
sudo touch freshclam.log
sudo chown -R clamav:clamav /var/log/clamav/freshclam.log
Question is : how can ...
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Problem with apt held broken packages [duplicate]
I'm trying to install clamav and when I'm running sudo apt-get install clamav clamav-daemon -y
The output is:
root@server:/etc/apt# apt-get install clamav
Reading package lists... Done
Building ...
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ClamAV doesn't scan a file if the extension is JSON
I am using ClamAV with it's Python interface pyclamd to scan for any potential malware or "bad files" that are downloaded by the code on the server. While it scans all other files properly, ...
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Ubuntu 23.04 clamtk: libjson-c.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
I cant use the program for years now. What is wrong here?
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Is there offset scan function in ClamAV? How to use offset?
Scanning files takes so much time. My idea is the first day to scan only files up to 20MB. The next day to scan files of 20MB and more. So I have the idea, that I could just skip first 20 MB bytes and ...
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Where do I specify a local mirror for the clamav virus definitions to update from?
We have a local mirror for the virus definitions for clamav. We want to have clamav get its virus updates from this mirror. Where and how do I specify to point to the local mirror for the virus ...
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How do I copy the contents of a CD sequentially vs disconnected reads?
I have a series of DVDs of about 5GB each which are being copied onto a Ubuntu machine using a Dell DW316 reader to then be virus scanned with clamAV-daemon. Currently, this is very slow, running at ...
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ClamAV scan results /home/user [failed]
DirectAdmin ClamAV error one user not scann all the time failed and this error
LibClamAV Warning: PNG: Unexpected early end-of-file.
LibClamAV Warning: PNG: Unexpected early end-of-file.
LibClamAV ...
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Files Unexpectedly Identified as Trojans by ClamAV
ClamAV has produced some unexpected results from a recent scan:
Are the files in libxkbcommon and node_modules really trojans and exploits, or is this an example of Clam not doing what it's supposed ...
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PC unresponsive after clamscan
I ran clamscan -r -i without specifying the drive, because I have multiple and wanted it to check all of them. My entire PC is now unresponsive. What do I do?
Ubuntu 20.04.5 LTS, 64-bit
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Clamscan cannot remove 'Read Only' viruses in /media/user/Windows
I ran a clamscan -r -i --remove / on my Ubuntu 22.04, which is installed alongside Windows 10 on my computer, and it gave me the following results:
/media/<me>/Windows/Program Files/Common Files/...
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does clamav work on windows subsystem for linux?
I scanned my pendrive using clamscan which has a virus but it is showing 0 infected file.
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How to start clamav-freshclam.service properly : freshclam: ... Can't save PID to file /var/run/clamav/freshclam.pid: No such file or directory
the service clamav-freshclam.service cannot be started :
$ sudo systemctl start clamav-freshclam.service
$ systemctl status clamav-freshclam.service
● clamav-freshclam.service - ClamAV virus ...
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ClamAV file size restrictions
What is the file size limit for scanning large files with ClamAV? Is it possible to scan files as large as 20gb.
Thank you
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Clamav: command not found [duplicate]
I installed clamav and clamtk. clamtk GUI is visible but seems to do nothing.
If I do:
clamav on the CLI I get clamav: command not found.
If you do:
sudo clamav clamav-freshclam I also get:clamav: ...
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Clamav make freeze to laptop
I ran a virus check on my Ubuntu 22.04 laptop with sudo clamscan -r / -l /home/max/clamlog.txt and the machine froze completely. I have to turn it off by pressing the power button for 6 seconds.
Is ...
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Ubuntu 20.04 Clamav restore from quarantine
I found that Clamav has set in quarantine some files important (libreOffice, Ubuntu Software and other not virus file).
Is there any way to restore all the files from the quarantine?
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LMD on Ubuntu 20.04 Server
Despite haviing ClamAV-Daemon installed, LMD / inotify always execute usr/bin/clamscan for scans, rather than using clamd, causes 100% CPU usage spikes.
I've checked the /usr/local/maletect/conf....
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ClamAV doesn't Uninstall completely | Ubuntu 18.04
A month ago, not sure how but maybe ClamAV got installed during the software update 'apt-get update' & apt-get upgrade'
I complete tried to remove the clamAV using remove or purge, then followed ...
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ClamAV not updating - EOL version
The AV database for ClamAV is not updating anymore. When I looked into the ClamAV documentation it mentioned that any Clam version below 0.103.4 is not supported anymore and blocked from updating as ...
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I can not install ClamAV to my Ubuntu 18.04 machine
I'm trying install ClamAV antivirus to my Ubuntu desktop machine, but I got some errors:
$ sudo apt-get install clamav clamav-deamon -y
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you ...
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Does LMD and ClamAV have any packages for sending reports to a monitoring console?
I currently have about forty Ubuntu Servers (mostly 18.04 and 20.04) that I am installing ClamAV and maldetect on so we have at least some monitoring for malware on the systems. What we will likely do ...
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Is ClamAV broken? It doesn't seem to scan correctly?
I'm currently trying to deploy ClamAV in its LTS 0.103.2 version onto an Ubuntu 18.04 LTS server. ClamAV seems to work fine in the first place but when I did some test scans of different files I've ...
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sudo freshclam problems
When I put following in terminal:
sudo mkdir /var/log/clamav
sudo chown -R clamav:adm /var/log/clamav/
sudo chown -R clamav:clamav /var/log/clamav/
sudo freshclam
I can succesfully get virus ...
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Why has ClamTK stopped working?
I cannot do virus checks anymore because ClamTK has stopped working. I have removed and added but no joy. Is anybody else having the same issue?
ClamAV won't run in a terminal either.
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How to print the location of malware in the terminal with ClamAV?
When I use
clamscan -r --bell -i /
(scan the whole system, output only when warning appear)
I get this warning in the terminal
LibClamAV Warning: PNG: Unexpected early end-of-file.
How can I get the ...
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I run clamav and throws me: error: getcwd() failed with errno 2/No such file or directory
I compile the latest version of clamav from source.
And by executing the following command
sudo clamscan --infected --recursive /home
In the end it throws me the following error
error: getcwd() failed ...
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ClamAV MD5 sum based whitelists (*.fp) don’t work in Ubuntu MATE 20.04.2
Trying to make ClamAV ignore several files. These are almost cryptocoin miners which I do use. Cryptocoin miners get flagged by most antivirus programs for they can be distributed as malware (using ...
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can clamtk slow down ubuntu?
can clamtk with clamav slow down my ubuntu 20.10? I have clamtk and clamav both on this computer. I've noticed it is slower and I think it may be that I have both installed. Can you only work with ...
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ClamAV and UFW on 18.04
I have loaded ClamAV: Ubuntu 18.04. Ran it and it found a bunch of junk that was deleted. I also installed ClamTK.
My question is if I activate UFW (would prefer the GUI version) will it cause a ...
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ClamAV: Unknown response from database.clamav.net
I have installed ClamAV 0.103 version.
When I run the freshclam manually I get the following response:
ClamAV update process started at Wed Mar 17 15:43:55 2021
daily.cld database is up to date (...
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location clamav's .cvd files?
I am trying to manually update ClamAV on a nas (non ubuntu based linux) for a friend, but i am not sure where to place the daily.cvd file.
I installed it automatically through the system but for one ...
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Clamav gui for Ubuntu 20.10
I have read that Clamav has a GUI. Does anyone know where i can get Clamav with a GUI? I am running Ubuntu 20.10
Thanks
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Custom ClamAV signatures not working
I'm attempting to create some custom signatures for ClamAV for testing purposes. I create signatures like this:
sigtool --md5 test.exe > test.hdb
Next to test it I do:
clamscan -d test.hdb test....
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What does the Clamtk network setting do?
As mentioned in the question, what does the network setting for clamtk do? It seems that it is not clearly documented in the clamav/clamtk documentations. I have basic knowledge of what is a IP ...
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Installing clamav?
I'm having a problem with ClamAV. First edited the config file, did that then it was "locked by another process". Then run freshclam and an error msg:
ERROR: Can't create temporary directory ...
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trying to clamscan my drive, error in permissions
My computer's been slowing down. I want to scan it for viruses. I made a text file for a log as /home/user/Infected/clamscanlog
I ran:
clamscan -i -r --log=/$home/USER/Infected/clamscanlog
and I get
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How do I use ClamAV to scan my entire computer? [duplicate]
How do I use ClamAV to scan the entire computer? Im on Ubuntu 16.
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Cannot uninstall ClamAV from Ubuntu 18.04
I've been trying to use Ubuntu after being a long-time Windows user. So a few months back, one of the first things I've tried was installing the antivirus ClamAV. However, not being used to using ...
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clamav freshclam did not working
sudo freshclam
output:
ERROR: /var/log/clamav/freshclam.log is locked by another process
ERROR: Problem with internal logger (UpdateLogFile =
/var/log/clamav/freshclam.log).
ERROR: initialize: ...
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Can’t open /var/../freshclam.log error when updating ClamAV's virus database
I get this when I want to update virus data:
ERROR: Can’t open /var/log/clamav/freshclam.log in append mode (check permissions!).
ERROR: Problem with internal logger (UpdateLogFile = /var/log/clamav/...
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infected ubuntu programs? [duplicate]
My ClamAV antivirus tells me that I have 2 potential threats in my cache. It lists them as PUA.Win.Tool.Packed-177 and PUA.Win.Trojan.Generic-688. Should I be concerned?
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How to offline update ClamAV database?
I did download ClamAv datebase and I want to offline update the signature database, as far as I surfed I could not find a solution and also in ClamTK, ClamAVs GUI there is no option for the offline ...
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clamscan /boot/System.map-5.0.0-32-generic: Access denied
I just installed and updated clamav. I am now running clamscan from the terminal for the boot directory. I keep receiving Access Denied errors for files within the boot directory. I'd like to scan my ...
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Installing ClamAV on Ubuntu 20.4 [duplicate]
I want to install clamav. I follow the community documentation by doing
$ sudo apt-get install clamav
After confirming with y, the following happens at the end of the installation process:
Selecting ...
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Files are gone from drive after clamscan
I had this oopsie moment. A friend gave me a hard drive with some files and I wanted to scan these before copying them over to my computer. I opened the terminal and switched to the respective folder ...
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Difficulty with updating ClamAV
As it says in the title, I am struggling to update ClamAV and I have traced the problem to the timeout settings in the freshclam.conf file. The timeout settings are at 30 seconds by default... except ...
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How to run software with system start
I have a problem to set run software with system start. I have ubuntu 20.04. I tried to insert these lines to etc/rc.local
#!/bin/bash
/usr/bin/clamonacc
it doesn't work. Second try was to insert it ...
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Clamav - OnAccessMountPath & OnAccessPrevention
I would like to watch entire file system. In clamav config file system I have set
OnAccessMountPath /
However I would like to have blocking mode. According to documentation, it is not possible to use ...
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