Clamav Mac Uninstall
ClamAV® is an open source antivirus engine for detecting trojans, viruses, malware & other malicious threats. Documentation & FAQ. Official documentation can be found online at ClamAV.net. Our source code release tarballs also includes a copy of the documentation for offline reading. ClamAV Signatures. Anyone can learn to read and write ClamAV. ClamXav is a popular choice for many longtime Mac fans, and overall the app seems good. It's simple to use, offers basic protection for your Mac and stays out of your way. I think it's a mistake to not create at leat man page for clamav, wich is the name of the package. – m3nda Jun 23 '15 at 3:06 7 If you want to check all files of the system, then you should use clamscan -r -bell -i -exclude-dir='^/sys' / because in /sys/ are no real files and not excluing it would cause reading errors. A few weeks ago, I tried to update my ClamAV to the newer version, but I failed. Then I decided to uninstall it and set up the newer one. After I went to Add/Remove programs list through the Start menu and uninstalled this antivirus, I found in my TEMP folder Clam Antivirus is leaving behind lots of temp folders. You can use clamscan with the option -remove to automatically remove all infected file in the scanned folder. WARNING: Files are gone. Clamscan -r -remove /home/USER Another possibility is to move the infected files to another folder with the option -move=FOLDER, so you can later check which files of them maybe not infected or a virus.
ClamXav can be downloaded directly or through the Mac App Store. The Mac App Store version does not contain the Sentry tool that allows constant scanning for changes by folder, so this tutorial is for the download version which you can get at http://www.clamxav.com/.
Note: ClamXav used to be free but as of June 2015 is a commercial product. I think it’s well worth the $30 and by paying for it I’m helping to ensure the development of the product continues.
After installation, log out of your Mac and back in.
Starting
When you first launch ClamXav it’s a good idea to update the Virus Definitions. Next let’s set some preferences.
General Preferences
- You can set these as you desire, especially the audible alerts
- Believe it or not, UNcheck scanning your email for malware. Your spam filter will catch most of this and put it in a spam bucket but ClamXav will stil find it and give you CONSTANT popups about it. I also don’t update virus definitions on launch because we’ll put it on a schedule in a later step. I DO however allow the application to check for updates on launch like any other program. It might seem odd also to UNcheck update virus definitions on launch, but we’re going to do that on a schedule instead in a later step.
- Click on the Sentry tab next.
Sentry
Sentry keeps an eye on any folder you choose. We’re going to set it to watch your Downloads folder, because that’s where new stuff shows up that we want scanned. This is the feature you only get if you buy directly from ClamXav.com and is not available in the Mac App Store version.
Drag Home Folder Into the Window
Drag your Downloads folder into the window. Alternatively you can push the plus button and navigate to your Downloads folder.
Your Downloads Folder Will Now be Monitored
- Verify – you should see simply ~/Downloads in the folders being watched.
- Click on the Schedule tab next.
Schedule
It’s a good idea to allow virus definitions to be updated daily so set the pulldown to a time you’re sure your machine will be on. Now simply let ClamXav run and hope you never hear back from it!
Run a Full Scan
Run a full scan of your home folder. This took about 3 hours for my very large home folder. It found 450 .emix files, where are all Mail files that are probably in my spam and junk mail folders. Once the scan is done, you can right click on the files and show where they are in the finder, or you can simply choose delete from that menu, or select them all and hit command-delete.
Now that your machine is clean, you can rely on Sentry to watch for changes and to scan only those changes.
Scan On Demand
ClamXav also installs a Service that lets you scan a file or folder at any time. Simply right click on the file or folder you want to scan, pull down to Services, and choose Scan with ClamXav. The application will run and show you the results of the scan.
Log out and back into your account for the contextual menus to be available under Services.
First post to the Clamav list.I have Clamav 0.88.2 installed from source on an OSX client machine.
I want to upgrade to 0.88.4.
Now, usually when I upgrade Clamav, I back up the clamd.conf and
freshclam.conf
files and cd to the old clamav source folder. From there I run 'make
uninstall' and all
is well.
The problem is, somebody deleted the old clamav source folder so 'make uninstall' is
no longer possible. (I presume this is correct).
To manually remove clamav from the system, what are ALL the relevant
Clamav For Mac
files I should be looking for ??
Much Thanks,
Robert.
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