Wiki/Services/VirusScan.md

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Malware is everywhere -- deployed by email, botcrawlers, script injection, physical intrusion, and many other vectors. Hosts in the AniNIX deploy the VirusScan service to protect themselves.

Etymology

The name comes from the function. Category:TODO

Relevant Files and Software

Linux

Linux hosts use the [https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ClamAV ClamAV] package to scan for viruses. The AniNIX has a [file:///root/bin/vscan script] to execute the clamscan executable across all files, logging to [file:///var/log/clamscan.log log file] and reported via email to admins.

Crontab entries regularly execute the vscan and freshclam executables to scan the system and update the virus definitions daily. Category:ClamAV

Windows and Android

Windows and Android hosts will use the [https://avast.com Avast] software package to conduct scans. There are no configuration files to be manipulated directly. Category:Avast

Available Clients

There are no clients for this service.

Additional Reference

Hyper-V

Hyper-V hosts that must run antivirus should make sure to [https://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/2179.hyper-v-anti-virus-exclusions-for-hyper-v-hosts.aspx exclude these locations] to prevent guest disk errors as described in RCAs#Windows_Virtual_Disk_Failure. This includes both the host and any fileshares in use by other systems.

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