Topic: Forcing a manual virus scan

[judgej]

Is there a way to do this?

I've just upgraded a server, and I want to force it to do a complete virus scan. Any ideas how I would go about doing that?

-- JJ

Update: I think this works, though not through the normal background process (so it won't e-mail the results to the administrator):

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nohup /usr/bin/clamscan  --recursive --infected --stdout --log /var/log/clamd/clamscan.log --exclude=/proc --exclude=/sys --exclude=/usr/share --exclude=/var --exclude=/var/spool/clamav/quarantine --move=/var/spool/clamav/quarantine / &


[rkscscc]

quick and dirty solution:

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clamscan -v --remove -r /