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Author: Eric Oyen via PLUG-discuss
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To: Main PLUG discussion list
CC: Eric Oyen
Subject: Re: Help with clam on access scanning
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 <> 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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