Two front ends for Clamav | Linux Today

Two front ends for Clamav

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Mar 10, 2010

“Clamav is the most popular free anti virus program for Linux
environment.( Of course it scans for widows virus) However, clam is
a command line utility and you need some skills for manipulating is
properly. There are several graphical front ends for clam av which
can make your life easy. The most popular among them are clamtk and
Klamav.

“Clamtk

“Clakmtk uses Perl-tk for GUI. It is available for several
distributions. On ubuntu you can install it as

$ sudo apt-get install clamtk

“On Karmic it showed up as virus scanner under Applications
->system tools.

“On launching it , the following screen pops up”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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