How to Install and Uninstall clamav-unofficial-sigs Package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Last updated: April 28,2024

1. Install "clamav-unofficial-sigs" package

Please follow the step by step instructions below to install clamav-unofficial-sigs on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "clamav-unofficial-sigs" package

This tutorial shows how to uninstall clamav-unofficial-sigs on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the clamav-unofficial-sigs package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Package: clamav-unofficial-sigs
Priority: extra
Section: universe/utils
Installed-Size: 236
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: ClamAV Team
Architecture: all
Version: 3.7.2-2
Depends: bind9-host | host, clamav, curl, dnsutils, gnupg, rsync
Suggests: clamav-daemon (>= 0.94.dfsg.1)
Filename: pool/universe/c/clamav-unofficial-sigs/clamav-unofficial-sigs_3.7.2-2_all.deb
Size: 28948
MD5sum: fc6ed6f53c5f115ccf2a11fe8656fa0f
SHA1: 8971006709e3f994f32d9d1f5362f016d8e3c67c
SHA256: 708e8d11fd3ada1f13c8745b641748d5bd7c045afa309cf1d8acd69a694e024e
Description-en: update script for 3rd-party clamav signatures
This package provides a script for updating the following sources of
3rd-party clamav signatures until freshclamav gains support for such
signatures.
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The SaneSecurity/OITC signatures provide detection of phishing, spear
phishing, fake lottery, ecard malware, casino, fake jobs, fake loans,
419s, fake diplomas, porn, emailed malware and other general spam.
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MSRBL signatures provide detection of image spam and general spam.
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SecuriteInfo signatures provide various badware signatures,
securiteinfo.com honeypot signatures, honeynet.cz signatures
and French anti-spam signatures
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MalwarePatrol provides detection of mail containing URLs to malware.
Description-md5: 25cae5c730f952d7bbaaee3d1874cf69
Homepage: http://sourceforge.net/projects/unofficial-sigs/
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu