Run a virus scan¶

You can run a server wide virus scan using the ClamAV utility. ClamAV is a free and open source antivirus toolkit that allows you to configure on access scanning and also run a virus scan. This guide will only explain how to run a scan. If you would like to configure on demand scanning you can refer to the below ClamAV blog post.

http://blog.clamav.net/2016/03/configuring-on-access-scanning-in-clamav.html

To run a virus scan using the ClamAV toolkit you will use the clamscancommand. There is a lot of available flags that can be used in conjunction with the scan but the two that will be described here are the -r and -i flags. The -r flag specifies for the scan to run recursively through the directory specified to scan. The -i flag specifies to only print infected files. The below command will search through the /home directory and then print the results into a file.

  clamscan -r -i /home/ > clamresults.txt