Apps / Security

ClamAV

Scan what arrives, not what you own

ClamAV® is an open source antivirus engine for detecting trojans, viruses, malware & other malicious threats.

Installing it

Open the dashboard, go to Apps, press Add on it and apply the change. Or from a terminal on the box:

sudo homebox install antivirus

Good to know

• It keeps the whole signature database in memory — about 1.5GB, which is most of what this module costs
• It sees the downloads folder and nothing else. The media library, your documents and this box's own config are out of its reach on purpose
• Quarantine is a dot-prefixed folder OUTSIDE downloads, so Sonarr and Radarr never try to import something that was moved there
• The first start downloads signatures before it can scan anything, which takes a few minutes on a normal connection

View this app's definition on GitHub