You can view the documentation below, or browse our GitHub Repository, where you can contribute to user manual and FAQ.
General | Installing ClamAV | How to Report A Bug | Miscellaneous FAQ | ClamAV Virus Database FAQ | End of Life Policy (EOL) | Potentially Unwanted Applications (PUA) | Mailing Lists FAQ | Troubleshooting FAQ | Safebrowsing | Upgrading ClamAV | ClamAV on Microsoft Windows FAQ | Which Version of ClamAV should I use? | Uninstalling ClamAV | ClamAV Overview | Interpreting Scan Alerts FAQ | Freshclam FAQ | How do I ignore a ClamAV signature?
Manual | Clam AntiVirus User Manual
Manual | UserManual | Installing ClamAV on Unix / Linux / macOS from Source | Installing ClamAV on Windows | Introduction | LibClamAV | On-Access Scanning | Creating signatures for ClamAV | Usage | ClamAV Development
Manual | UserManual | Installation-Unix | Installation on Debian and Ubuntu Linux Distributions | Installation on macOS (Mac OS X) | Installation on Redhat and CentOS Linux Distributions
Manual | UserManual | Signatures | Trusted and Revoked Certificates | Body-based Signature Content Format | Bytecode Signatures | Signatures based on container metadata | Database Info | Dynamic Configuration (DCONF) | Passwords for archive files \[experimental\] | Extended signature format | File Type Magic | ClamAV File Types | Functionality Levels (FLEVELs) | File hash signatures | Logical signatures | PhishSigs | Using YARA rules in ClamAV | Allow list databases
Manual | UserManual | Usage | Configuration | Scanning | Signature Testing and Management
Additional | Microsoft Authenticode Signature Verification | Private Local Mirrors
`./configure`
`sudo make uninstall`
Debian:
dpkg --remove clamav*
Redhat/Fedora:
yum remove clamav*
Mandriva:
urpme clamav
Gentoo:
emerge -C clamav
FreeBSD:
pkg delete clamav
OpenBSD:
pkg_delete clamav
NetBSD:
pkgin remove clamav
Slackware:
/etc/rc.d/rc.clamav stop; removepkg clamav
Make sure that you haven’t got old libraries (libclamav.so) lying around your filesystem. You can verify it using:
$ ldd `which freshclam`
Also make sure there is really only one version of ClamAV installed on your system:
`$ whereis freshclam`
`$ whereis clamscan`