Installing ClamAV with MailScanner

These instructions will configure ClamAV to use the clamd daemon:

  • Make sure clamavconnector is NOT installed in WHM > Manage Plugins as this will break MailScanner
  • If you would like to verify ClamAV’s digital signatures on the virus definition files as they are updated through freshclam, you need to install GMP first:
    /scripts/ensurerpm gmp gmp-devel bzip2-devel
  • Next you will need to create a user for clamav to use:
    useradd clamav
    Some OS’s require you to add the group as well:
    groupadd clamav
    Don’t worry if the user and/or group already exist.
  • Create and chown the /usr/local/share/clamav directory:
    mkdir /usr/local/share/clamav
    chown clamav:clamav /usr/local/share/clamav
  • Download the latest stable ClamAV distribution from http://www.clamav.net
    Note: If you are running Fedora Core 4 or earlier, you cannot install any version of ClamAV later than 0.91.2 because of a broken gcc.
  • Expand the distribution and cd into the resultant directory and build ClamAV using:
    tar -xzf clamav-*
    cd clamav*
    ./configure –disable-zlib-vcheck
    make
    make install
  • pico -w /usr/local/etc/freshclam.conf
    Comment out the line (put a # as the first character on the line) near the top that says simply:
    Example
  • pico -w /usr/local/etc/clamd.conf
    Comment out the line (put a # as the first character on the line) near the top that says simply:
    Example
  • pico -w /usr/local/etc/clamd.conf
    Change the following line:
    #LocalSocket /tmp/clamd.socket
    to this:
    LocalSocket /tmp/clamd
  • Run ldconfig to create the necessary links and cache to most recent shared libraries
    ldconfig
  • Run freshclam to download the latest definitions:
    freshclam
  • Install the example init script that we provide:
    curl configserver.com/free/clamd -o /etc/init.d/clamd
    chown root:root /etc/init.d/clamd
    chmod +x /etc/init.d/clamd
    chkconfig clamd on
    service clamd restart
  • pico -w /etc/chkserv.d/clamav
    Add the following line:
    service[clamav]=x,x,x,service clamd restart,clamd,root
  • Create an empty log file for clamav updates:
    touch /var/log/clam-update.log
    chown clamav:clamav /var/log/clam-update.log
  • Add clamav to chkservd so that it will be monitored:
    pico -w /etc/chkserv.d/chkservd.conf
    clamav:1
  • At this point you can setup clamd in the MailScanner configuration:
    pico -w /usr/mailscanner/etc/MailScanner.conf

    Set the following options:
    Virus Scanners = clamd
    Clamd Socket = /tmp/clamd

  • Then restart MailScanner with:
    service MailScanner restart 
  • You can now set what domains you want scanned for viruses in:
    /usr/mailscanner/etc/rules/virus.scanning.rules

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