I use mostly Debian Linux, so on every new server or Desktop one of first things I did was to install it, i.e.:īefore I knew Clamav AV for Windows has GUI, anyways till recently I didn't know if there is some kind of free software AV Graphical frontend for Linux. I always prefer so until now I used Clamav Antivirus to keep an eye periodically on my Desktop Linux host and servers running mail servers (those who run Mail Servers know how useful is Clamav in stopping tons of E-mail attached Malware Viruses and Trojans).

Though risk of Viruses on Linux is so tiny, it is useful to have ANTI-Virus Software to check files received from Skype, E-mails and onse downloaded with Browser. Just to mention few non-free Linux AV software providing install binaries A lot of popular MS- Windows Anti-Virus programs, has already ports for Linux. It CAN but not very likely to happen 🙂Īs a Desktop user over the last 10 years, even though I installed plenty of packages from third party sources and never happened to infect my computer with Virus – or at least if I infected I never knew it. I share this story because, I want to beat-up the Myth that Linux cannot have Viruses. In lifetime one of my old testing computers got infected with Virus because of my mistake of running 'suspicious' pre-compiled 'cracker' software binaries with no MD5 verification and 'questionable' websites… During the 13 last years as dedicated GNU / Linux user, I've seen Linux servers with binaries infected with Viruses, however the hosts, were severely messed hosts because noone updated them on time and script kiddy crackers has 'hacked' multiple times. You can reload the databases immediately by opening the ClamAV for Windows user interface, and clicking on Update Now.In general Linux has fame for being Virus Free Operating System. When installing custom signatures, SigUI verifies that ClamAV can successfully load the databases, and install only those that are successfully loaded.Īny changes you make will not take effect immediately, but only the next time the databases are reloaded. When changing freshclam settings via the UI, it first verifies that the settings are syntactically correct, and saves them in nf. On earlier versions you will need to login as Administrator. On Windows Vista and later you will get the UAC popup to grant Administrator privileges to the application. In either case you must run this program with administrative privileges.

Or you can navigate to the installation directory of ClamAV for Windows, and from the clamav subdirectory launch sigui.exe. Start→All Programs→ClamAV for Windows→SigUI. The application can be launched from the Start Menu: Deploy an existing nf to multiple machines.Manually copy virus signature databases to ClamAV's database directory.Configure updates of custom signatures by freshclam.Configure which mirror freshclam should use.

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