In today's environment, viruses and malicious threats can be found in any system, including Linux. So, as a system administrator, we can use an antivirus on our Linux servers.
ClamAV, is one such open source antivirus software, for detecting and removing viruses, Trojans, malware, and other threats on Linux systems.
ClamAV can be installed from the default repositories of Ubuntu. However, if we want to install it from the source, we can download the official source code from: http://www.clamav.net/download.html.
In this section, we will see how to install ClamAV antivirus, on our Ubuntu server:
- Before beginning with the installation of the tool, we will update the repository, by running the following command:
- Next, we will run the following command to install ClamAV antivirus:
- We can also install the GUI for the same tool, using the following command:
- Once the installation completes, we can check the version of the package installed by...