Comments on How to scan for viruses with ClamAV on Ubuntu 24.04

clamscan -help

clamscan: illegal option -- e

ERROR: Unknown option passed

ERROR: Can't parse command line options

Use "--help" and not "-help":

clamscan --help

Nice artikel. Please do realize that Clamav does not scan compressed files like .zip.

You can use avg for linux, use avgscan -a.

Just created a bash to save and run every so often, this takes a while to run. 

#!/bin/bash

#clam antivirus scan for linux takes a while to run

sudo apt-get install clamav -y

sudo freshclam

clamscan -r –remove /

exit 0

Thanks very much!

its actually 

clamscan -r --bell -i /path/to/directoryits --bell not -bell 

Ha. I came to the comments to say the same thing.

Thanks for sharing this, just what I was looking for

Instead of a manual scan, how can i set up clam av to scan a certain folder everyday?

Create a cronjob that runs the clamscan command daily.

My Linux boxes have been running slow for about a year, so I tried clamav.  After installing, I entered a command

line to scan, which I found on the google list of solutions (not a web site):

clamav -r --bell -i /    I go about 150 lines of:

LibClamAV Warning: fmap_readpage: pread fail: asked for4095 bytes @ offset 1, got 0

The 4095 and 1 varied.  The got 0 was consistant.  I am running xubuntu 18.04 LTS

with a hang at the end, no exit.  Help?

Your the man BIll Thanks for sharing your hard work.

Known viruses: 6762421Engine version: 0.100.2 Scanned directories: 1 Scanned files: 20 Infected files: 0 Data scanned: 0.84 MB Data read: 0.73 MB (ratio 1.16:1)Time: 23.440 sec (0 m 23 s)

Can you please tell me how to remove viruses? Terminal command for linux

Kanhaiya, read the --help again :)

Use "clamscan --remove  --move=/home/<user>/viruses, but be careful, the removal might cause problems, especially if it was a false positive, so run it without the --remove first.

this is great!! 

I get this:

dell@newlife:~$ sudo apt-get install clamav

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree       

Reading state information... Done

E: Unable to locate package clamav

dell@newlife:~$ sudo freshclam

sudo: freshclam: command not found

I too am having this problem. I get the same error when running 'sudo apt-get install clamav'.

Why do the writers of this type of software not give one the option of  scheduling a scan say 10 or 15 minutes after booting up? Instead one has to select a time, and in my case my PC is not on all the time as I boot it up at odd intervals during the day and switch it off when I have finished doing my business. I therefore cannot say at precisely what time the PC will be active.

Hi so I ran the full scan and it found three viruses, but it didn't remove them. So what do I do now? Do I have to manually remove them? I thought clamwin would automatically send the viruses to qourantine then delete them, right? here is the results:

----------- SCAN SUMMARY -----------

Known viruses: 8924011

Engine version: 0.102.4

Scanned directories: 151991

Scanned files: 855244

Infected files: 3

Total errors: 121196

Not removed: 3

Data scanned: 42162.97 MB

Data read: 69491.77 MB (ratio 0.61:1)

Time: 12472.445 sec (207 m 52 s)

jaeiboo@Jaeiboo-X220T:~$ 

Can someone help me with this?

thanks, I'm a nooob to Linux, but I'm going in fulltime all the way fully converted to linux.

P,s, I heart Linux

is there a way to stop it while scanning?

just close the terminal window

Thank you for this great program. Run it all the way.

Can we save the scan results in a map?

Just a linux novice.

warm greetings from the heart,

Silvester