Installing Clam AntiVirus

Clamwin is an Open Source Software and comes with open source code, absolutely free of charge. All you have to do is download it and run it. It is based on the Clam AV technology for UNIX and has been primarily designed to guard and scan email on mail gateways.

To Install Clam AntiVirus on a linux (RHEL, CentOS) server without control panel:

Download the repo file:
 wget http://www.linux-mail.info/files/dag-clamav.repo
This will save a file  dag-clamav.repo in the current location.

Place the repo file in the correct repo location:
mv dag-clamav.repo /etc/yum.repos.d

Use yum to install
yum install clamav clamav-devel clamd

To update the virus definitions type:
 freshclam

To use this anti virus type:
 clamscan

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