How to do it...

In this section, we will see how to use ClamAV to perform a scan; as per our requirements.

  1. As a first step, we will check the Help menu of the tool, to see the different options supported by ClamAV, as shown here:

  1. As seen in the following screenshot, ClamAV supports various options to be used during scanning:

  1. We will now start the scan on the /home directory, as shown here:

  1. Once the scan completes, it shows a scan summary ...

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