After installing clamav in Ubuntu 16.04, do I have to explicitly schedule a cron job to run freshclam periodically? Or do the signatures get updated automatically by clamav?
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When all necessary packages are installed, the signatures are updated automatically in Ubuntu.
That happens periodically 24 times each day, so every 60 minutes when you do not change this.
Check whether you have the following packages installed :
clamav clamav-base clamav-daemon clamav-freshclam
To do it execute the following command :
dpkg --get-selections | grep clamav
Default settings : signature database updates every hour
You can change the settings by running these commands :
sudo dpkg-reconfigure clamav-daemon
sudo dpkg-reconfigure clamav-freshclam
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