solved! ClamAV "Access Denied"

[server_mint]

Hi all,

 

I brought a relative's old laptop back to life with a copy of Xubuntu, and I recently installed ClamAV (although I'm not quite sure I did everything right).

 

Whenever I initiate a scan in the terminal, a lot of areas seem to have an "Access Denied" error.

Here's the full log, which came after I inputted "sudo clamdscan"

 

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/home/xubi/.Xauthority: Access denied. ERROR
/home/xubi/.xsession-errors: Access denied. ERROR
/home/xubi/.xsession-errors.old: Access denied. ERROR
/home/xubi/.bash_history: Access denied. ERROR
/home/xubi/.pEp_management.db: Access denied. ERROR
/home/xubi/.pEp_management.db-wal: Access denied. ERROR
/home/xubi/.pEp_management.db-shm: Access denied. ERROR
/home/xubi/.config/user-dirs.dirs: Access denied. ERROR
/home/xubi/.config/libreoffice/4: lstat() failed: Permission denied. ERROR
/home/xubi/.config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml: lstat() failed: Permission denied. ERROR
/home/xubi/.config/xfce4/xfwm4: lstat() failed: Permission denied. ERROR
/home/xubi/.config/xfce4/desktop: lstat() failed: Permission denied. ERROR
/home/xubi/.config/xfce4/terminal: lstat() failed: Permission denied. ERROR
/home/xubi/.config/xfce4/src/misc: lstat() failed: Permission denied. ERROR
/home/xubi/.config/pulse: lstat() failed: Permission denied. ERROR
/home/xubi/.config/gtk-3.0: lstat() failed: Permission denied. ERROR
/home/xubi/.config/update-notifier: lstat() failed: Permission denied. ERROR
/home/xubi/.config/dconf: lstat() failed: Permission denied. ERROR
/home/xubi/.config/Thunar: lstat() failed: Permission denied. ERROR
/home/xubi/.config/Mousepad: lstat() failed: Permission denied. ERROR
/home/xubi/.gnupg: lstat() failed: Permission denied. ERROR
/home/xubi/.cache/sessions: lstat() failed: Permission denied. ERROR
/home/xubi/.cache/thumbnails: lstat() failed: Permission denied. ERROR
/home/xubi/.cache/obexd: lstat() failed: Permission denied. ERROR
/home/xubi/.cache/gstreamer-1.0/registry.x86_64.bin: Access denied. ERROR
/home/xubi/.cache/mozilla: lstat() failed: Permission denied. ERROR
/home/xubi/.cache/xfce4/notifyd/icons: lstat() failed: Permission denied. ERROR
/home/xubi/.cache/thunderbird: lstat() failed: Permission denied. ERROR
/home/xubi/.local/share: lstat() failed: Permission denied. ERROR
/home/xubi/.mozilla: lstat() failed: Permission denied. ERROR
/home/xubi/snap/vlc/1700/.config: lstat() failed: Permission denied. ERROR
/home/xubi/snap/vlc/1700/.local/share/vlc: lstat() failed: Permission denied. ERROR
/home/xubi/snap/vlc/common/vlcrc: Access denied. ERROR
/home/xubi/snap/vlc/common/.cache/vlc: lstat() failed: Permission denied. ERROR
/home/xubi/snap/bitwarden/28/.pki: lstat() failed: Permission denied. ERROR
/home/xubi/snap/bitwarden/28/appdata: lstat() failed: Permission denied. ERROR
/home/xubi/snap/signal-desktop/327/.config: lstat() failed: Permission denied. ERROR
/home/xubi/snap/signal-desktop/327/.pki: lstat() failed: Permission denied. ERROR
/home/xubi/snap/signal-desktop/common/.cache/mesa_shader_cache: lstat() failed: Permission denied. ERROR
/home/xubi/snap/audacity/675/.config: lstat() failed: Permission denied. ERROR
/home/xubi/snap/audacity/666/.config: lstat() failed: Permission denied. ERROR
/home/xubi/.thunderbird: lstat() failed: Permission denied. ERROR
/home/xubi/.pEp: lstat() failed: Permission denied. ERROR

----------- SCAN SUMMARY -----------
Infected files: 0
Total errors: 43
Time: 19.643 sec (0 m 19 s)

 

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[Guest]

This is because "clamdscan" runs as user clamav which doesn't have permission to access your files. Use "clamscan" instead

"clamdscan" is for software integration, otherwise you can use "clamdscan --fdpass path/to/scan". --fdpass passes file permissions to clamdscan.