How to Install ClamAV - Antivirus for Ubuntu


Although you don't need to install any antivirus software on your Ubuntu machine, however out of curiosity to keep your heart and mind rest in peace, you may try out open source antivirus project ClamAV.



To do that just follow the steps

  • ClamAV can be found for Ubuntu in the apt repository. Run this command to install ClamAV:

sudo apt-get install clamav

  • If you need clamd, you may also want to run:

sudo apt-get install clamav-daemon

  • If you require support for scanning compressed RAR files you first need to enable the non-free archive, and then you can install the RAR-plugin using:

sudo apt-get install libclamunrar6

After successful installation, you may try searching for it in Dash, but to your surprise there is no GUI shipped with this product, either you can run it through terminal by typing help command (clamscan --help) and follow the instruction's provided in the help manual
(or)
You may install ClamTk - A GUI provided by Ubuntu community.
To install it just visit https://code.google.com/p/clamtk/ and Download the copy for Ubuntu 14 and then right click it and select the option "Open with Ubnutu Software center"

After all this stuff, you may want run it to check for viruses, of-course you can do that, however it will better to check with the latest virus definition updates.

To do that run the command in terminal sudo freshclam (or) you can do it graphically in ClamTk.

So at-last you added the antivirus program and scanned it, to see the result "Oops no Virus", which may give your mind and heart a rest in peace.
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