[clamav-users] ClamAV - What does the “clamd at scan” service do by default?

[G.W. Haywood]

Hi there,

On Mon, 27 Jan 2020, Graeme Fowler via clamav-users wrote:

> If you want to do a daily scan, the basic command would be:
>
>                clamdscan /
>
> ...but you need to configure clamd in /etc/clamd.d/scan.conf to do this.

And at the risk of sounding like a broken record, the command

clamdscan /

is probably more dangerous than the things you're worried about.

There are parts of a Linux filesystem which you must not scan,
because in Linux (and Unix systems generally) much of the guts
of the system is exposed as what appears to be files in the
filesystem, all of which appear somewhere below '/'.  Raw disc
devices, USB hardware, sound devices, input and display devices
for example can be found under /dev.

You don't really want to scan your microphone, do you?

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73,
Ged.