Install ClamAV and Configure Daily Scanning on CentOS

ClamAV is an open source (GPL) antivirus engine designed for detecting Trojans, viruses, malware and other malicious threats on Linux.  In this article, we will only be configuring ClamAV to run scheduled/on-demand scans; not resident scans. 1. Install EPEL repo Before we can do proceed, you must ensure that you have the EPEL yum repository enabled. CentOS 6 – 32-bit 1rpm -Uvh http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm CentOS 6 – 64-bit 1rpm -Uvh http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm CentOS 5 – 32-bit 1rpm -Uvh http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/5/i386/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm  CentOS 5 – 64-bit 1rpm -Uvh http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/5/x86_64/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm After...

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