January 2018
Intermediate to advanced
376 pages
8h 45m
English
Content preview from Mastering Linux Security and Hardening
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Updating ClamAV and maldet
The good news for busy admins is that you don't have to do anything to keep either of these programs updated. Both of them run with a cron job that gets created automatically and that does the updates for us. To prove that ClamAV is getting updated, we can look in the system log file:
Dec 8 20:02:09 localhost freshclam[22326]: ClamAV update process started at Fri Dec 8 20:02:09 2017Dec 8 20:02:29 localhost freshclam[22326]: Can't query current.cvd.clamav.netDec 8 20:02:29 localhost freshclam[22326]: Invalid DNS reply. Falling back to HTTP mode.Dec 8 20:02:29 localhost freshclam[22326]: Reading CVD header (main.cvd):Dec 8 20:02:35 localhost freshclam[22326]: OKDec 8 20:02:47 localhost freshclam[22326]: Downloading ...