Linux Malware

Linux Security

ClamAV

Install (Ubuntu)

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install clamav

sudo apt install clamav-daemon

Update signatures

By default signatures will be updated automatically. If you need to update manually use...

freshclam

Note that if an automatic update is happening in the background, running this will likely throw an error.

Config

Config files are in /etc/clamav. The following command reports all config...

clamconf

Scan

clamdscan filename

Monitoring

clamdtop

rkhunter

Rootkit Hunter

rkhunter --propupd

rkhunter --version