Gentlemen, I found your answers very useful, so I took the liberty of publishing them on the thread I opened about the problem on the internet ( https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/564223/61742 ).
If you do not want this content to continue to be published, please let me know so I can delete it. Thanks! =D Em dom., 26 de jan. de 2020 às 08:12, G.W. Haywood via clamav-users < clamav-users@lists.clamav.net> escreveu: > Hi there, > > On Sat, 25 Jan 2020, Eduardo Lúcio Amorim Costa via clamav-users wrote: > > > *QUESTION:* What does the "clamav@scan" service do by default if it > finds > > threats? > > I do not know exactly which package you are using. The behaviour of > the service provided by a package will depend on how it was configured > by the package provider. Assuming the package maintainer has not lost > his sanity, the service will be configured simply to report findings > (for example by logging a message to a system log and, if you use a > command-line tool, printing a message on the tty/terminal/whatever). > > Read the documentation on the ClamAV Website for more information: > > http://www.clamav.net/documents/clam-antivirus-user-manual > > Copies and parodies of ClamAV documentation elsewhere on the Internet > can be out of date, misleading, sometimes incorrect, and occasionally > downright dangerous. > > > *FURTHER QUESTION:* I would like ClamAV to have the "classic" behavior of > > an antivirus engine, that is, remove threats automatically. If he doesn't > > do this by default what should I do to make him do it? > > Read the part which says > > "Be careful!" > > If you have not yet found that part, keep reading until you do. > > > *NOTES:* > > *I* - The operating system of choice was CentOS 7 and the process used is > > described in this tutorial > > > https://hostpresto.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-clamav-on-centos-7/ > > Generally speaking I recommend that you avoid tutorials like this > because they tend to make decisions for you without the benefit of > information about your situation which only you can have. I recommend > that you do NOT attempt to automate threat removal on any Linux system > without very careful consideration. Careless use of ClamAV on a Linux > system will do more harm than good. In particular, this tutorial will > have you scan locations in the filesystem which can not safely be > scanned with ClamAV, nor with any anti-virus tool. Keep in mind that, > even in a minimal installation, ClamAV scans for much more than just > viruses and malware and that the false positive rate is never zero. I > feel that you do not at present understand the issues well enough to > consider them sufficiently carefully. > > I have been using ClamAV for many years, on hundreds of Linux systems. > Perhaps this is mainly because of good hygiene but I have not yet seen > ClamAV find a Linux virus, nor Linux malware, nor Linux rootkit on any > Linux system. I should be pleased if anyone who has will report, here > on this list, what they have found, when they found it, and how they > think it got there. Any Linux system which has been compromised is a > danger, and my advice would be to rebuild it from scratch. > > -- > > 73, > Ged. > > _______________________________________________ > > clamav-users mailing list > clamav-users@lists.clamav.net > https://lists.clamav.net/mailman/listinfo/clamav-users > > > Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: > https://github.com/vrtadmin/clamav-faq > > http://www.clamav.net/contact.html#ml > -- *Eduardo Lúcio* LightBase Consultoria em Software Público eduardo.lu...@lightbase.com.br *+55-61-3347-1949 - http://brlight.org <http://brlight.org/> - Brasil-DF* *Software livre! Abrace essa idéia!* *"Aqueles que negam liberdade aos outros não a merecem para si mesmos."* *Abraham Lincoln*
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