Installing ClamAV Antivirus in AWS EC2 instance

Following steps will help you to setup ClamAV virus scanner in AWS Ec2 instance

Step1 : Install ClamAV

Yum install clamav clamd

Step2 : Setup up log file folder

a.       Create a new folder clamd under /var/log

b.       Provide a read write access to clamscan user

chown -R clamscan:clamscan /var/log/clamd/

Step3: If you are trying to use socket.

            a.       Create a  clamd.scan folder under /var/run

            b.       Provide a read and write access to clamscan user

chown -R clamscan:clamscan /var/run/clamd.scan/

Step4: Setup Configuration

a.       Edit the configuration file available in

vi /etc/clamd.d/scan.conf

b.       To enable logging un comment LogFile and change the path

LogFile /var/log/clamd/clamd.log

c.       If you are using Socket un comment LocalSocket and change the path

                                LocalSocket /var/run/clamd.scan/clamd.sock

d.       If you are tying to TCP port uncomment TCPSocket

Step5:  run sed -i '/^Example$/d' /etc/clamd.d/scan.conf

Step 6  Start service

                service clamd.scan start