Installing ClamAV on cPanel server.
Safeguarding your web site and server against virus
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Define ClamAV :-
“Clam AntiVirus is a GPL anti-virus toolkit which is integrated with mail servers. The package provides a flexible and scalable multi-threaded daemon, a command line scanner, and a tool for automatic updating via Internet so that you have latest updated version fo software, most importantly; the virus database is kept up to date.”
If you are planning to Install ClamAV the antivirus software for your Dedicated Server then you need to follow few mentioned steps :-
- Log into you WHM control panel as root
- then go to Cpanel >> Manage Plugins
- Click on clamavconnector to install and click Save button cPanel will now install the software onto the server. It may take a few minutes.
- Once it is installed, the ClamAV option can be found under Plugins >> Configure ClamAV Scanner, here you can customize all required setting and can set what to scan like whether to scan only emails or web space. The options are pretty self explanatory.
- When ClamAV installs, it automatically adds a cron job to ensure that the virus definitions are up to date. If you need to update the virus definitions manually, you can do so through the command line, by running : [root@server ~]# freshclam
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