HOWTO-ClamAV for Open WebMail

HOWTO install and configure ClamAV (AntiVirus) for Open WebMail on Red Hat/Fedora Core
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By Thomas Chung
On 2004-07-26

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1. Installation

# wget
# rpm -Uvh clamav-0.72-1.i386.rpm

2. Configuration

# vi /etc/clamav.conf

Change value for User from 'clamav' to 'root'
otherwise, you will get "Can't access the file ERROR"

# vi /etc/freshclam.conf

Change value for Checks from "24" to "2"
to update virus database every 2 hours

3. Start services

freshclam - update virus databases
clamd - an anti-virus daemon

# chkconfig freshclam on
# service freshclam start
# chkconfig clamd on
# service clamd start

4. Test clamd manually

clamdscan - scan files and directories against viruses using Clam
AntiVirus Daemon

# clamdscan -v /usr/share/doc/clamav*
# clamdscan -v /home/

5. Enable viruscheck in openwebmail.conf

# vi openwebmail.conf

enable_viruscheck yes
viruscheck_pipe /usr/bin/clamdscan --mbox --disable-summary --stdout -
viruscheck_source_allowed all