Increase security of VPS with ClamAV

Increase security of VPS with ClamAV

Posted: 10 years ago in  Unix | Miscellaneous |

VPS used in production stores data of all websites and sometime, we use the VPS to develop/install applications that might cause the problem with virus. ClamAV is free anti-virus for Unix. It would scan files/email. Here is configuration of ClamAV and "Get Started" steps:

VPS used in production stores data of all websites and sometime, we use the VPS to develop/install applications that might cause the problem with virus. ClamAV is free anti-virus for Unix. It would scan files/email. Here is configuration of ClamAV and "Get Started" steps:

sudo apt-get install clamav clamav-daemon

Then run database update the first time

sudo freshclam

Then start the clam daemon and clam updater

sudo /etc/init.d/clamav-daemon start

sudo /etc/init.d/clamav-freshclam start

check its status

sudo /etc/init.d/clamav-daemon status

sudo /etc/init.d/clamav-freshclam status

Create a folder with report.txt to log the result

To scan the whole VPS, use command

sudo clamscan -i -r -l /path/to/file/report.txt

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