Tips on improving ClamAV

ClamAV is an open source Anti-Virus that that can accept virus signatures from different contributors. Swinburne University is kind enough to contribute additional signatures for ClamAV.

Following steps demonstrate how to improve the signatures in your existing ClamAV installation. These instruction assume you're using ClamAV on a Linux machine.

• Locate /etc/clamav/freshclam.conf file.
• Add the following lines at the end of the file:

  DatabaseCustomURL http://ftp.swin.edu.au/sanesecurity/foxhole_generic.cdb
  DatabaseCustomURL http://ftp.swin.edu.au/sanesecurity/foxhole_filename.cdb
  DatabaseCustomURL http://ftp.swin.edu.au/sanesecurity/foxhole_all.cdb
  DatabaseCustomURL http://ftp.swin.edu.au/sanesecurity/foxhole_js.cdb
  DatabaseCustomURL http://ftp.swin.edu.au/sanesecurity/badmacro.ndb
  DatabaseCustomURL http://ftp.swin.edu.au/sanesecurity/bofhland_malware_attach.hdb

• Restart freshclam by running /etc/init.d/clamav-freshclam restart