Download the latest production clamav:
wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/clamav/clamav-0.98.3.tar.gz tar xf clamav-0.98.3.tar.gz cd clamav-0.98.3 apt-get install libxml2 libxml2-dev libbz2-dev libzip2 libzip-dev ./configure make && make install
If you get the error:
“#clamd
clamd: error while loading shared libraries: libclamav.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory”
Solution:
Run ldconfig:
#ldconfig
Now,
cp ./etc/clamd.conf.sample /usr/local/etc/clamd.conf cp ./etc/freshclam.conf.sample /usr/local/etc/freshclam.conf emacs /usr/local/etc/clamd.conf emacs /usr/local/etc/freshclam.conf
Create user and group for clamav, and then create log file and clamav directory, setting appropriate permissions:
groupadd clamav useradd -g clamav -s /bin/false -c "Clam Antivirus" clamav touch /var/log/freshclam.log mkdir /var/lib/clamav touch /var/run/freshclam.pid chown clamav.clamav /var/log/freshclam.log chown clamav.clamav /var/lib/clamav chown clamav.clamav /var/run/freshclam.pid
Now update the database by running freshclam as daemon:
#sudofreshclam -d
If that doesnt work:
#sudo freshclam -v
Read the documentation at http://www.clamav.net/doc/latest.bak/clamdoc.pdf
Comment out the line “Example” from both example conf files.
/usr/local/etc/clamd.conf:
LogTime PidFile /var/run/clamav/clamd.pid TemporaryDirectory /var/tmp DatabaseDirectory /var/clamav LocalSocket /var/run/clamav/clamd.sock FixStaleSocket MaxConnectionQueueLength 30 ReadTimeout 180 SelfCheck 3600 User amavis AllowSupplementaryGroups ScanPE DetectBrokenExecutables ScanOLE2 ScanMail ScanHTML ScanArchive ArchiveMaxFileSize 10M ArchiveMaxRecursion 5 ArchiveMaxFiles 1000 ArchiveMaxCompressionRatio 300 ArchiveBlockEncrypted ArchiveBlockMax
/usr/local/etc/freshclam.conf:
DatabaseDirectory /var/lib/clamav UpdateLogFile /var/log/freshclam.log LogFileMaxSize 2M LogTime yes LogRotate yes PidFile /var/run/freshclam.pid DatabaseMirror database.clamav.net ScriptedUpdates yes Checks 24 ConnectTimeout 60 ReceiveTimeout 60 Bytecode yes