CLAMAV INSTALL Having real problems re installation. Here is where I started. Installation of Clamav version 0.88 for AIX 4.3.3.11 Downloaded off http://aixpdslib.seas.ucla.edu/packages/clamav.html using my Win XP computer clamav.0.88.tar.Z and burnt it to cd On RS/6000 7012-250 AIX 4.3.3.11 computer at root # mkdir clam88 # mount /cdrom # cd /cdrom # ls -l shows clamav_0.z # cp /cdrom/clamav_0.z /clam88 (takes several minutes) # cd / #unmount /cdrom and take cd out of drive # cd /clam88 # ls -l shows clamav_0.z there To uncompress need .z to be .Z Must be in /clam88 # pwd shows /clam88 # mv clamav_0.z clamav_0.Z # ls -l shows it is clamav_0.Z # uncompress clamav_0.Z # ls -l shows clamav_0 # file clamav_0 shows it to be a tar archive must be in /clam88 # pwd shows /clam88 # tar xf /clam88/clam_0 (takes several minutes) Doing # ls -l several times it shows the following structure /clam88/usr and file clamav_0 /clam88/usr/local/bin with files clamav-config, clamdscan, clamscan, freshclam, sigtool /clam88/usr/local/include with files clamav.h /clam88/usr/local/lib with files libclamav.a,libclamav.la /clam88/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig with file libclamav.pc /clam88/usr/local/sbin with file clamd /clam88/usr/local/man/man1 with files clamdscan.1, clamscan.1, freshclam.1,sigtool.1 /clam88/usr/local/man/man5 with files clamd.conf.5, freshclam.conf.5 /clam88/usr/local/man/man8 with files clamav-milster.8, clamd.8 Do a logout and logon to install expanded programs. Now this is where I get into problems. No icons on desk top to run program. Found on http://clamav.or.id/ "Installation instructions for *nix (PLATFORM is linux, sol8, etc.): Extract clamav-VERSION_NUMBER.PLATFORM.tar.gz or clamav-devel-latest.PLATFORM.tar.gz to /. It will create files under /usr/local Create clamav user and group if necessary. Check out the files /usr/local/etc/clamd.PLATFORM.conf and /usr/local/etc/freshclam.PLATFORM.conf. Edit as necessary, and copy them to clamd.conf and freshclam.conf. If you don't change anything, clamd and freshclam will run as root. You can also look at the files clamd.conf.example and freshclam.conf.example to see what settings are available. run "/usr/local/bin/freshclam" run "/usr/local/bin/clamscan /usr/local/share/clamav/test" to verify that the installation works. If complains about some missing library, you might be able to find it here. Place it on either /usr/lib or /usr/local/lib (depends on your system). " A lot of the files they mention are not in my structure. Doing, as the above suggests # /clam88/usr/local/bin/freshclam brings up error can't parse the config file # /clam88/usr/local/bin/clamscan brings up error can't get imformation about user clamav # /clam88/usr/local/bin/clamav-config brings up message about usage options which I do not understand. Have read articles, to get ideas on http://www.dbg400.net/cgi-bin/twiki/view/DBG400/ClamAVoniSeries And the 0.88 manuals on http://www.clamav.net/doc/0.88/ but cannot make any real headway on the actual steps to get those desk top icon's to get it to work. Would really appreciate anyone with the time expertise and patience to give me a command by command set of instructions. Is there a better resource on the web like a tutorial or a version of clamav in smit format that can be downloaded and installed. A group of old retiree's would love to get our old RS/6000 boxes onto the web safely. 1st Relpy Clamav is a PDS virus scanner... which probably isn't going to be as easy to install and run as you'd like. To do a decent job, you need to be conversant with sendmail, perl, regex and misc things. But, it you want to proceed, a good starting point for you is: http://www.mimedefang.org/ Your starting point is the HOWTO > A group of old retiree's would love to get our old RS/6000 boxes onto > the web safely. Virii on unix aren't [currently] an issue. Your more immediate problem is that your AIX system is long off support and by default that version of AIX permits promiscious relay. It will be a spam relay quite soon after it is connected to the internet. 2nd Reply you need to copy the tar archive, clamav_0, to / then run tar -xf This will extract it to /usr/local/..... Then going on with the install instructions will get you where you need to be 3rd Reply You really don't need AntiVirus software on an AIX box. This makes sense only if you want to scan filesystems on the server shared by Samba to M$ Windoze boxen, or for a Mail Gateway scanning attachments. There are no viruses for AIX in the wild. There are exploits for old Netscape 4 or xpm, png, and jpeg libraries. But I doubt they are high risk for such an obscure config. There are attacks for vulnerable Apache and/or PHP installations. It is absolutly necessary preventing sendmail from open relaying. The latter two aren't a problem if you have a simple firewall in front of your workstation with no ports forwarded to your RS/6000. Any RS/6000 with a recent browser and *not* surfing as "root" is much safer than a fully patched WinXP SP2 with Personal Firewall and AV software using IE6/OE6 -- Uli