Configure ClamAV Scanner

Clam AntiVirus (ClamAV) is an antivirus software toolkit that is available for cPanel & WHM installations. The scanner searches your server for malicious programs. If the scanner identifies a potential security threat, it flags the file to allow you to take the appropriate action.

How to install ClamAV Scanner

To install or uninstall ClamAV Scanner, use WHM's Manage Plugins interface (Home >> cPanel >> Manage Plugins).

ClamAV Scanner configuration

To configure ClamAV Scanner, perform the following steps:

1. Select the services that you wish to scan.
   • Scan Entire Home Directory — Scans your server's home directory.
   • Scan Mail — Scans all of your server's mail folders.
   • Scan Public FTP Space — Scans all of the folders that are publicly accessible through FTP services.
   • Scan Public Web Space — Scans all of the folders that are publicly accessible through the web.
2. Click Save.

Configure ClamAV Scanner for specific users

If you wish to override the ClamAV Scanner configuration for specific users, click User Configuration. The User Configuration interface also allows you to set override defaults for all configured users.

Add or remove configured users

Before you can configure a user's ClamAV Scanner settings, that user must appear on the Configured Users menu.

To add a user to the Configured Users menu, perform the following steps:

1. Select the desired user from the User List menu.
2. Click Add.
   • If you wish to add all of the users that are on the User List menu to the Configured Users menu, click Add All.

To remove a user from the Configured Users menu, perform the following steps:

1. Select the desired user from the Configured Users menu.
2. Click Remove.
   • If you wish to remove all of the users that are on the Configured Users menu, click Remove All.

Configure defaults for new configured users

ClamAV Scanner applies the settings that you specify under the Defaults header to all new configured users.

To set the default settings for new configured users, perform the following steps:

1. Select the services that you wish to scan.
   • Scan Entire Home Directory — Scans the user's home directory.
   • Scan Mail — Scans the user's mail folders.
   • Scan Public FTP Space — Scans all of the user's folders that are publicly accessible through FTP services.
   • Scan Public Web Space — Scans all of the user's folders that are publicly accessible through the web.
2. Click Save.

Configure settings for an individual user

To configure ClamAV Scanner for an individual user, perform the following steps:

1. In the Group Scanner Configuration section's Configured Users menu, select the user for whom you wish to configure ClamAV Scanner.In the User Scanner Configuration section, 
   • If the desired user does not appear in the Configured Users menu, use the instructions above to add that user.
   • The user that you select will appear in the Configure User text box in the User Scanner Configuration section.
2. click Configure.
3. Select the services that you wish to scan.
   
   
   • Scan Entire Home Directory — Scans the user's home directory.
   • Scan Mail — Scans the user's mail folders.
   • Scan Public FTP Space — Scans all of the user's folders that are publicly accessible through FTP services.
   • Scan Public Web Space — Scans all of the user's folders that are publicly accessible through the web.
4. Click Save Defaults.

Configure ClamAV Scanner for Exim

To configure ClamAV Scanner for Exim, perform the following steps:

1. Navigate to the Exim Configuration Manager interface (Home >> Service Configuration >> Exim Configuration Manager >> Basic Editor >> Security).
2. For the Scan messages for malware from authenticated senders (exiscan) option, select the On setting.
3. For the Scan outgoing messages for malware option, select the On setting.
4. Click Save.

Command line interface

If you prefer to use the command line interface to run ClamAV, the binaries are located in the /usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/bin/ directory:

If you use scripts that expect ClamAV binaries in the /usr/local/bin directory, create symbolic links with the following commands:

ClamAV Scanner cron job

After you configure ClamAV Scanner, we recommend that you schedule a root cron job to daily during off-peak hours. The cronjob should run the following command:

This command recursively searches the home directory for spam and infected f