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On Fri, May 10, 2019 at 7:44 PM Dexter Rivera via clamav-users <
clamav-users@lists.clamav.net> wrote:

> Hello All,
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> Is there a way to run a scan on a Mac without having to install Clam AV?
> I was able to scan a Windows machine with Clam AV as a stand-alone scanner
> and it would be great if I can do the same on my Mac using command line.
> Any ideas, leads, or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thank you
> in advance.
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> Dexter R. Rivera
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Seriously, I have no idea of what your end goal is?
If you don’t want to do nightly scans, there is fswatch: https://github.com/emcrisostomo/fswatch <https://github.com/emcrisostomo/fswatch>
It’s a trigger for on-access scanning for OSX and various other POSIX systems.

You can always run a cron job as well for nightly scans, which it sounds like you were doing for windows, but it needs to be installed somewhere, and have file access.

Sincerely,

Eric Tykwinski
TrueNet, Inc.
P: 610-429-8300

> On May 10, 2019, at 7:42 PM, Dexter Rivera via clamav-users <clamav-users@lists.clamav.net> wrote:
>
> Hello All,
>
> Is there a way to run a scan on a Mac without having to install Clam AV? I was able to scan a Windows machine with Clam AV as a stand-alone scanner and it would be great if I can do the same on my Mac using command line. Any ideas, leads, or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance.
>
>
>
> Dexter R. Rivera
>
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I also cannot understand what your objective is nor what method you might have used to scan a Windows machine without installing a ClamAV somewhere.

Do you want to boot an external machine or boot the Mac from an external drive and scan the Mac's internal drive? Or reach out to ClamAV on some external source from the Mac and scan it?

Sent from my iPad

-Al-

> On May 10, 2019, at 18:18, Eric Tykwinski <eric-list@truenet.com> wrote:
>
> Seriously, I have no idea of what your end goal is?
> If you don’t want to do nightly scans, there is fswatch: https://github.com/emcrisostomo/fswatch
> It’s a trigger for on-access scanning for OSX and various other POSIX systems.
>
> You can always run a cron job as well for nightly scans, which it sounds like you were doing for windows, but it needs to be installed somewhere, and have file access.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Eric Tykwinski
> TrueNet, Inc.
> P: 610-429-8300
>
>> On May 10, 2019, at 7:42 PM, Dexter Rivera via clamav-users <clamav-users@lists.clamav.net> wrote:
>>
>> Hello All,
>>
>> Is there a way to run a scan on a Mac without having to install Clam AV? I was able to scan a Windows machine with Clam AV as a stand-alone scanner and it would be great if I can do the same on my Mac using command line. Any ideas, leads, or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance.
>>
>>
>>
>> Dexter R. Rivera
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>>
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>> clamav-users@lists.clamav.net
>> https://lists.clamav.net/mailman/listinfo/clamav-users
>>
>>
>> Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide:
>> https://github.com/vrtadmin/clamav-faq
>>
>> http://www.clamav.net/contact.html#ml
>
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Get ClamXAV

https://www.clamxav.com <https://www.clamxav.com/>

James

> On 11 May 2019, at 9:42 am, Dexter Rivera via clamav-users <clamav-users@lists.clamav.net <mailto:clamav-users@lists.clamav.net>> wrote:
>
> Hello All,
>
> Is there a way to run a scan on a Mac without having to install Clam AV? I was able to scan a Windows machine with Clam AV as a stand-alone scanner and it would be great if I can do the same on my Mac using command line. Any ideas, leads, or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance.
>
>
>
> Dexter R. Rivera
>
> _______________________________________________
>
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> https://lists.clamav.net/mailman/listinfo/clamav-users <https://lists.clamav.net/mailman/listinfo/clamav-users>
>
>
> Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide:
> https://github.com/vrtadmin/clamav-faq <https://github.com/vrtadmin/clamav-faq>
>
> http://www.clamav.net/contact.html#ml <http://www.clamav.net/contact.html#ml>

Hi there,

On Fri, 23 Aug 2019, Dexter Rivera via clamav-users wrote:
> On 8/22/19, 9:19 AM, "Eric Tykwinski" <eric-list@truenet.com> wrote:
>> ...
>> Something like ansible?
>> Use ansible's homebrew module to install ClamAV, run a scan, than use the module again to uninstall.
>
> That's exactly the scenario I'd like to have. ...

I'd be interested to know why you don't want ClamAV to be installed on
the Macs themselves. Here's just a note of caution: if you don't keep
the malware databases installed on the machines, then, every time you
want to scan one, you'll need to send something on the order of half a
gigabyte of data to it before you start a scan. It doesn't scale well.

ClamAV goes to great lengths to minimize the amount of data transfer
needed to keep the malware databases up to date, and you'll be taking
no advantage of those efficiencies if you remove them after each scan.

--

73,
Ged.

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