Apps / Security
ClamAV
Scan what arrives, not what you own
An open-source virus scanner watching the downloads folder. Most of what lands there is video, which is not what malware hides in — but a 'movie' that is really an .exe, or a keygen inside a release archive, is exactly what this catches before anyone opens it on a Windows machine.
CategorySecurity
Memory~1.5GB
Module
antivirusInstalling it
Open the dashboard, find it in the App Store and press Install. Or from a terminal on the box:
sudo homebox install antivirusGood 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