Anti-Virus (Clamav); Installing Clamav Basic; Installing Clamav Advanced; Chapter 12, "Anti-Virus (Clamav) - Novell OPEN WORKGROUP SUITE SMALL BUSINESS EDITION 2.0 - INSTALLATION AND ADMINISTRATION GUIDE 5-02-2008 Administration Manual

Anti-Virus (ClamAV)

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Clam AntiVirus is an anti-virus toolkit for UNIX, designed especially for e-mail scanning on mail
gateways. It provides a number of utilities, including a flexible and scalable multi-threaded daemon,
a command line scanner, and an advanced tool for automatic database updates. The core of the
package is an anti-virus engine available in the form of a shared library.
For additional information, see the
clamdoc.pdf).

12.1 Installing ClamAV Basic

1 Click Add/Remove under Components, then select All. Scroll down to Anti-Virus (ClamAV) and
click Install.
2 Select Basic, then click Next.
3 Review the settings. To make a change, click Back. To proceed with the installation, click Next.
4 The Basic ClamAV install is now complete. Click Finish to return to the available software
page.

12.2 Installing ClamAV Advanced

1 Click Add/Remove under Components, then select All. Scroll down to Anti-Virus (ClamAV) and
click Install.
2 Select Advanced, then click Next.
3 Select the security options most suitable for your business needs. By default, AntiVirus uses the
most common recommended options. These options allow you to customize your installation.
Portable Executable Support: PE stands for Portable Executable, which is an executable
file format used in all 32-bit versions of Windows operating systems. This option allows
ClamAV to perform a deeper analysis of executable files and it is also required for
decompression of popular executable packers such as Petite.
Detect Broken Executables: Select the check box to allow detection of broken
executables.
Microsoft Office Document Scanner: Select the check box to enable scanning of
Microsoft Office document macros.
Clam Mail Scanner: Select the check box to enable the internal e-mail scanner.
Clam Mail URL Scanner: Select the check box to enable the downloading and scanning
of e-mail that contains URLs.
Clam MS HTML Script Scanner: Select the check box to enable HTML normalization
and decryption of MS and Script Encoder code.
4 Set your scanner options for archival file support.
Clam Archive Max File Size: Specify the maximum file size to scan.
ClamAV documentation site (http://www.clamav.net/doc/latest/
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