You may have to check and see if the .txt extension is one of the ones that can be set for scan on access. Since I haven’t used the Clam in a very long time, I am not sure if any of the old advanced options are still in there.

-Eric
From the Central Offices of the Technomage Guild, Infrastructure security division


> On Dec 10, 2020, at 6:42 PM, Jim via PLUG-discuss <plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
> 
> I have Kubuntu 20.04 installed with Clamav.
> 
> clamscan -V tells me
> ClamAV 0.102.4/26014/Thu Dec 10 07:21:42 2020
> 
> cat /proc/version says
> Linux version 5.4.0-56-generic
> 
> I tried to get the on access scanning to work. clamonacc is in /usr/bin.  I used the directions here:
> https://www.clamav.net/documents/on-access-scanning
> 
> The problem is that it doesn't do anything when I access eicar.com.txt which I downloaded from
> https://www.eicar.org/?page_id=3950
> 
> Have I missed something or is there something else going on?
> 
> 
> thanks
> 
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