

Sudo apt update & apt-get install clamav clamav-daemon To install ClamAV on your Ubuntu server you can use this command: One additional step to take will be to install and configure ClamAV as the default scanner engine. Next, we execute the installation script which is located in the maldet directory which we've just extracted from our tar ball: The current version is 1.6.4 but in the future, this is likely to change so you might need to access a different directory from the example below: The output of the command will look like this: To extract the tarball you can use the tar command.
#How to install linux malware detect archive
To download the archive you can execute this command: The commands you will need for the installation and download are: wget or curl for the download and tar to extract the downloaded tarball.

The installation is not done via any repositories but you download Maldet via tarball from the Maldet official website. For my installation purposes in this article, I will install it on Ubuntu 20.04 server. I've tested the functionality on CentOS and Ubuntu servers and I can confirm that it behaves pretty well on both. You can run Maldet on basically every flavour or Linux. Since this is a Linux Malware Detection software you will need to install it on a Linux server. It also has other really cool features which I'll try to cover in this article. Maldet is really handy malware scanner because it's a database for malicious files detection is also designed to work in a shared hosting environment and can be easily implemented without the hassle of long and difficult SysAdmin work. LMD or Linux Malware Detect is most commonly known under another name - Maldet which is a malware scanner for Linux.
