Install ClamAV on CentOS 6 Rumi, May 23, 2020 Step 1. First add yum repository your system. The EPEL repo is enabled by simply installing an RPM. Please use the command below to install the EPEL repository on your CentOS server. #CentOS 6 – 32-bit rpm -Uvh http://mirror.overthewire.com.au/pub/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm #CentOS 6 – 64-bit rpm -Uvh http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm Step 2. Install required ClamAV packages. yum install clamav clamd Step 3. Start the clamd service on system boot. chkconfig clamd on service clamd start Update ClamAV’s signatures: freshclam Step 4. Configuring daily scan. In this example, I will configure a cronjob to scan the /home/ directory every day: nano /etc/cron.daily/clamav_scan Add following piece of code into clamav_scan file. #!/bin/bash SCAN_DIR="/home" LOG_FILE="/var/log/clamav/manual_clamscan.log" /usr/bin/clamscan -i -r $SCAN_DIR >> $LOG_FILE Give our cron script executable permissions: chmod +x /etc/cron.daily/clamav_scan Congratulation’s! You have successfully installed ClamAV. Thanks for using this tutorial for installing ClamAV in CentOS 6 system. Administrations Configurations (Linux) CentOSCentOS 6Clamv