Mastering Linux Security and Hardening - Second Edition

Hands-on lab – installing ClamAV and maldet

We'll begin by installing ClamAV. (It's in the normal repository for Ubuntu, but not for CentOS. For CentOS, you'll need to install the EPEL repository, as I showed you in Chapter 1, Running Linux in a Virtual Environment.) We'll also install wget, which we'll use to download LMD. For this lab, you can use either Ubuntu, CentOS 7, or CentOS 8. Let's get started:

1. The following command will install ClamAV and wget on Ubuntu:

donnie@ubuntu3:~$ sudo apt install clamav wget inotify-tools

The following command will install ClamAV, inotify-tools, and wget on CentOS 7:

[donnie@localhost ~]$ sudo yum install clamav clamav-update wget inotify-tools

For CentOS 8, do the following:

[donnie@localhost ~]$ sudo ...