How To Install Clamdscan?

How To Install Clamdscan?

clamdscan

anti-virus utility for Unix – scanner client

Maintainer: ClamAV Team



Section: utils

Install clamdscan

  • Debian apt-get install clamdscan Click to copy
  • Ubuntu apt-get install clamdscan Click to copy
  • Arch Linux pacman -S clamdscan Click to copy
  • Kali Linux apt-get install clamdscan Click to copy
  • Fedora dnf install clamdscan Click to copy
  • Raspbian apt-get install clamdscan Click to copy

clamdscan

anti-virus utility for Unix - scanner client

Clam AntiVirus is an anti-virus toolkit for Unix. The main purpose of this software is the integration with mail servers (attachment scanning). The package provides a flexible and scalable multi-threaded daemon in the clamav-daemon package, a command-line scanner in the clamav package, and a tool for automatic updating via the Internet in the clamav-freshclam package. The programs are based on libclamav, which can be used by other software. This package contains clamdscan, the command line interface of the clamav daemon.

clamav

anti-virus utility for Unix - command-line interface

Clam AntiVirus is an anti-virus toolkit for Unix. The main purpose of this software is the integration with mail servers (attachment scanning). The package provides a flexible and scalable multi-threaded daemon in the clamav-daemon package, a command-line scanner in the clamav package, and a tool for automatic updating via the Internet in the clamav-freshclam package. The programs are based on libclamav, which can be used by other software. This package contains the command line interface. Features: - built-in support for various archive formats, including Zip, 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 Microsoft Office and Mac Office files, HTML, RTF and PDF. For scanning to work, a virus database is needed. There are two options for getting it: - clamav-freshclam: updates the database from Internet. This is recommended with Internet access. - clamav-data: for users without Internet access. The package is not updated once installed. The clamav-getfiles package allows creating custom packages from an Internet-connected computer.

clamav-dbg

debug symbols for ClamAV

Clam AntiVirus is an anti-virus toolkit for Unix. The main purpose of this software is the integration with mail servers (attachment scanning). The package provides a flexible and scalable multi-threaded daemon in the clamav-daemon package, a command-line scanner in the clamav package, and a tool for automatic updating via the Internet in the clamav-freshclam package. The programs are based on libclamav, which can be used by other software. This package contains the stripped debugging symbols for the ClamAV suite.

clamav-daemon

anti-virus utility for Unix - scanner daemon

Clam AntiVirus is an anti-virus toolkit for Unix. The main purpose of this software is the integration with mail servers (attachment scanning). The package provides a flexible and scalable multi-threaded daemon in the clamav-daemon package, a command-line scanner in the clamav package, and a tool for automatic updating via the Internet in the clamav-freshclam package. The programs are based on libclamav, which can be used by other software. This package contains the daemon featuring: - fast, multi-threaded daemon; - easy integration with MTA's; - support for on-access scanning; - remote scanning; - able to be run supervised by daemon.

To install the latest version of clamdscan in your favorite operating system just copy the clamdscan installation command from above and paste it into terminal. It will download and install the latest version of clamdscan 2026 package in your OS.