infrastructure-notes/ClamAV notes.md

ClamAV Notes

stop the clam scanning service. service clamd@scan stop

clamscan vs clamdscan

clamscan is the full scanner, clamdscan talks to the clam daemon who runs scans on its behalf. These give slightly different results. For example:

Clamd stuff

Logging

Logging is horrible. Clamd by default writes to a logfile, but doesn't apparently log when a scan actually runs or what its results were, unless that scan finds something.