February 29, 2008 · Security ·

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Clam AntiVirus is an open source (GPL) 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 advanced tool for automatic database updates. The core of the package is an anti-virus engine available in a form of shared library.

Clam AntiVirus main features

command-line scanner
fast, multi-threaded daemon with support for on-access scanning
milter interface for sendmail
advanced database updater with support for scripted updates and digital signatures
virus scanner C library
on-access scanning (Linux® and FreeBSD®)
virus database updated multiple times per day (see home page for total number of signatures)
built-in support for various archive formats, including Zip, RAR, Tar, Gzip, Bzip2, OLE2, Cabinet, CHM, BinHex, SIS and others
built-in support for almost all mail file formats
built-in support for ELF executables and Portable Executable files compressed with UPX, FSG, Petite, NsPack, wwpack32, MEW, Upack and obfuscated with SUE, Y0da Cryptor and others
built-in support for popular document formats including MS Office and MacOffice files, HTML, RTF and PDF

Install clamav in ubuntu

sudo aptitude install clamav clamav-daemon clamav-freshclam

This will complete the basic scanner installation.

GTK frontend for the Clam AntiVirus scanner

If you want to install GTK frontend for the Clam AntiVirus scanner in ubuntu you can install avscan or clamtk

This example i am installing clamTK

Download clamtk using the following command

wget http://puzzle.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/clamtk/clamtk_3.05-1_all.deb

Now you need to install clamtk .deb package using the following command

sudo dpkg -i clamtk_3.05-1_all.deb

If you get any problems use the following command

sudo apt-get -f install

This will complete the installation

If you want to open clamtk go to Applications--->Accessories--->Virus Scanner

Once it opens you should see similar to the following screen

If you want to scan your system go to File option from the menu and select which option you want

Virus scanning in progress

If you want to update virus signatures go to Help--->Update Signatures

Clamtk version details

If you want to install avscan use the following command this is another GUI for clamav

sudo apt-get install avscan

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23 Comments to “Howto Install Clam AntiVirus with GTK frontend GUI”

  1. M H Bell says:

    Tried to install the tk front end for clamav but got the following error message.
    sudo dpkg -i clamtk_3.05-1_all.deb
    Selecting previously deselected package clamtk.
    (Reading database … 102395 files and directories currently installed.)
    Unpacking clamtk (from clamtk_3.05-1_all.deb) …
    dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of clamtk:
    clamtk depends on libdate-calc-perl; however:
    Package libdate-calc-perl is not installed.
    clamtk depends on libfile-find-rule-perl; however:
    Package libfile-find-rule-perl is not installed.
    dpkg: error processing clamtk (–install):
    dependency problems – leaving unconfigured
    Errors were encountered while processing:
    clamtk
    MH

  2. admin says:

    try to run the following command
    sudo apt-get -f install

  3. Aleksey says:

    Hi. I installed ClamAV with clamtk, but how I make it so that when I click on the Virus Scanner icon, it starts as root? Right now it runs as the mortal user and does not have the privs to update the signatures.

    I know I can start it with “gksudo clamtk” but I want to be able to do that via the Virus Scanner icon, please?

  4. AdamB says:

    I don’t like how this program takes over many system default operations. Is there a way to install it without this behavior?

  5. TetonsGulf says:

    Aleksey-

    I had the same problem, but I changed the launcher command to include “gksudo”. It prompts me, but I can update at least.

  6. Paulo Souza says:

    # Sudo apt-get install clamav clamav-daemon clamav-freshclam clamtk

    Unbutu 8.04 😛

  7. Paulo Souza says:

    ubuntu 😛 😛

  8. NeoTaoistTechnoPagan says:

    sudo apt-get install libcarp-clan-perl libbit-vector-perl libdate-calc-perl libnumber-compare-perl libtext-glob-perl libfile-find-rule-perl libconfig-tiny-perl

  9. Ryan G says:

    Thanks. Just installing now.

  10. Ben says:

    After this operation, 17.4MB of additional disk space will be used.
    Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
    Err http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/universe clamav-base 0.92.1~dfsg2-1.1ubuntu0.2
    404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.88.46 80]
    Err http://security.ubuntu.com hardy-security/universe clamav-base 0.92.1~dfsg2-1.1ubuntu0.2
    404 Not Found
    Err http://security.ubuntu.com hardy-security/universe libclamav3 0.92.1~dfsg2-1.1ubuntu0.2
    404 Not Found
    Err http://security.ubuntu.com hardy-security/universe clamav-freshclam 0.92.1~dfsg2-1.1ubuntu0.2
    404 Not Found
    Err http://security.ubuntu.com hardy-security/universe clamav 0.92.1~dfsg2-1.1ubuntu0.2
    404 Not Found
    Failed to fetch http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/c/clamav/clamav-base_0.92.1~dfsg2-1.1ubuntu0.2_all.deb 404 Not Found
    Failed to fetch http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/c/clamav/libclamav3_0.92.1~dfsg2-1.1ubuntu0.2_i386.deb 404 Not Found
    Failed to fetch http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/c/clamav/clamav-freshclam_0.92.1~dfsg2-1.1ubuntu0.2_i386.deb 404 Not Found
    Failed to fetch http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/c/clamav/clamav_0.92.1~dfsg2-1.1ubuntu0.2_i386.deb 404 Not Found
    E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with –fix-missing?
    Help!

  11. admin says:

    @ try to run the following command

    sudo apt-get update

    after this try your installation command

  12. Andreas says:

    Hello at all,
    I use Ubuntu 8.10 and ClamTK 3.11. How can i change the language from english to german??

  13. Mike says:

    I cannot update clamtk because it says I have to be root to do so
    I m pretty new to linux and using Ubuntu 8.10
    Can anyone help me?
    thx

  14. TJ says:

    Yeah I am having the same problem. How do I update it says I have to be root to update.

  15. TJ and Mike says:

    TJ and Mike,

    To update under root run , sudo apt-get update

    sudo is root it will ask for a password (use the one you entered during install) , you will not be able to see your password being typed this is normal.

  16. Paul Valley says:

    Thank you for posting this

  17. Mal says:

    Thank you. V helpful. Though can you just clarify if I run sudo apt-get update that means I up dating the anti-virus data base??

  18. LittlePeon says:

    no if you run sudo apt-get update, you are updating your repository listing…(sudo apt-get update is ran before a sudo apt-get upgrade to update your ubuntu files–it is the command line way of running system update)

    in the program clamtk you can run update to update the anti-virus database

  19. Sanket Totewar says:

    How do you expect your readers to enjoy this blog, with a Google add on Internet Explorer 8 staring at their face?

  20. Alb says:

    Hi.

    I installed Clam AV using commands indicated, but when I try to update virus firm I get message “upgrade to “clamav-0.96.5”
    I downloaded the tar.gz file
    When I run ./configure, I get message
    “checking build system type… i686-pc-linux-gnu
    checking host system type… i686-pc-linux-gnu
    checking target system type… i686-pc-linux-gnu
    creating target.h – canonical system defines
    checking for a BSD-compatible install… /usr/bin/install -c
    checking whether build environment is sane… yes
    checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p… /bin/mkdir -p
    checking for gawk… no
    checking for mawk… mawk
    checking whether make sets $(MAKE)… yes
    checking how to create a ustar tar archive… gnutar
    checking for gawk… (cached) mawk
    checking whether ln -s works… yes
    checking whether make sets $(MAKE)… (cached) yes
    checking for style of include used by make… GNU
    checking for gcc… gcc
    checking whether the C compiler works… no
    configure: error: in `/usr/src/clamav-0.96.5′:
    configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables”

    gcc is installed in my system
    please give some help
    Regards

  21. Nicholas says:

    Seems to work on one PC. I had installed it on another but am having problems

    Can anyone telle me how to remove it ?

  22. thelongawaited1 says:

    I would try using:

    apt-get –reinstall install

    Then if that doesn’t work remove it using:

    apt-get remove –purge

  23. thelongawaited1 says:

    @Sanket Totewar:

    by using adblock

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