ClamAV is a cross-platform antivirus software that is capable of detecting different types of malware, including viruses. It includes various utilities such as a command-line scanner, a database updater, and a multi-threaded daemon, making it a powerful tool.
We have to install either the command-line version or the GUI version of the tool, before we can run a scan on our system. The tool can be installed as discussed in the previous section.
In this section, we will see how to use ClamAV to perform a scan; as per our requirements.
- As a first step, we will check the
Help
menu of the tool, to see the different options supported by ClamAV, as shown here:
- As seen in the following screenshot, ClamAV supports various options to be used during scanning:
- Once the scan completes, it shows a scan summary as follows:
- We can also run the scan using the GUI version. After opening the tool, we...