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Mastering CentOS 7 Linux Server

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785282393
Length 298 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Mohamed Alibi Mohamed Alibi
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Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Advanced User Management 2. Security FREE CHAPTER 3. Linux for Different Purposes 4. Mail Server with Postfix 5. Monitoring and Logging 6. Virtualization 7. Cloud Computing 8. Configuration Management 9. Some Additional Tricks and Tools Index

Setting up the Clamav antivirus


Clamav is an open source antivirus tool. Its basic usage is for detecting viruses, malware, and malicious software on Linux-based machines.

To install Clamav, we need to install the EPEL repository:

$ sudo yum install epel-release

Then we can install Clamav with all its useful tools:

$ sudo yum install clamav-server clamav-data clamav-update clamav-filesystem clamav clamav-scanner-systemd clamav-devel clamav-lib clamav-server-systemd

Before we start configuring, we need to make sure that SELinux will let Clamav work without issues:

$ sudo setsebool -P antivirus_can_scan_system 1

To check whether the option is active, we need to type this:

$ sudo getseboot –a | grep virus

Then we remove the example configuration, so we can make our own configuration:

$ sudo sed -i '/^Example/d' /etc/clamd.d/scan.conf

After removing the example lines, we need to do some modifications to define the TCP server type and to define the user root to execute the antivirus:

$ sudo nano...
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