Clamav

[skyjacker]

First time on this forum, and first time user of Fedora. I downloaded clamav from the "add new software" utility (can't remember what it is called now), and after it was downloaded I cannot fin d it in the menus. Where did it go???

[Rubberman]

It is a command-line tool, though it might now be integrated with your file manager (konqueror in KDE). If so then right-clicking on a file will offer the option of scanning the file for viruses. If not, open a terminal (console) window and enter the command "clamscan filename". The installation process should have installed a started the clamd daemon process as well. You should see if it is running on your system.

[waterhead]

There is a GUI frontend for the KDE desktop call Klamav.

There are a lot of add-on packages for clamav:

$ yum list *clam*
Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
Available Packages
clamav.i386                                          0.95.1-44.1.fc10                          atrpms 
clamav-data.i386                                     0.94.2-1.fc10                             updates
clamav-data-empty.i386                               0.94.2-1.fc10                             updates
clamav-devel.i386                                    0.95.1-44.1.fc10                          atrpms 
clamav-filesystem.i386                               0.94.2-1.fc10                             updates
clamav-lib.i386                                      0.94.2-1.fc10                             updates
clamav-milter.i386                                   0.94.2-1.fc10                             updates
clamav-milter-core.i386                              0.94.2-1.fc10                             updates
clamav-milter-sendmail.i386                          0.94.2-1.fc10                             updates
clamav-milter-sysv.i386                              0.94.2-1.fc10                             updates
clamav-server.i386                                   0.94.2-1.fc10                             updates
clamav-server-sysv.i386                              0.94.2-1.fc10                             updates
clamav-update.i386                                   0.94.2-1.fc10                             updates
exim-clamav.i386                                     4.69-7.fc10                               fedora 

$ yum list *klam*
Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
Available Packages
klamav.i386                                    0.46-2.fc10                                     updates

You may want to install the clamav-update program, if it didnt install it by default.

yum info clamav-update
Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
Available Packages
Name       : clamav-update
Arch       : i386
Version    : 0.94.2
Release    : 1.fc10
Size       : 71 k
Repo       : updates
Summary    : Auto-updater for the Clam Antivirus scanner data-files
URL        : http://www.clamav.net
License    : GPLv2
Description: This package contains programs which can be used to update the clamav anti-virus database
           : automatically. It uses the freshclam(1) utility for this task. To activate it, uncomment
           : the entry in /etc/cron.d/clamav-update.

[b2bwild]

First time on this forum, and first time user of Fedora. I downloaded clamav from the "add new software" utility (can't remember what it is called now), and after it was downloaded I cannot fin d it in the menus. Where did it go???

Hello and Welcome to forums, Skyjacker

However he haven't said that he is using KDE

as waterhead sai, you can use Klamav if you are using KDE.
you can use that on other environments too,

But i prefer is Clamtk a GUI based of tk.
Its quite simple compared to klamav (its just my opinion)