[CentOS] ClamAV help needed

[John R Pierce]

Anne Wilson wrote:
> ClamAV is installed on my CentOS box.  I edited the conf file and assumed all 
> is well.  Clearly it isn't.
>
> Every day I see in logwatch that my signatures are updated, and the database 
> notified, but if I try to scan a file manually it tells me that my signatures 
> are 55 days old.
>
> I tried looking at a how-to, in the hope of identifying the problem, but it is 
> hopelessly out of date, and I reached the stage where it seemed that 
> following it any further risked my installation.
>
> Can someone please give me a quick run-down of the things I should check.  
> Clearly freshclam is running, but that's about all I know for certain.
>   


first, enable rpmforge  repo
then...
    yum install clamav

then, run freshclam, and also put it in a daily or weekly cron job to 
automatically update

now, clamscan, or start clamd, or whatever