ClamScan Guide

A step by step guide on how to use CLAMSCAN for scanning any file/folder/drive letter.

1. Open Clamscan application (I use it as a portable app, which makes it much more easier for me). A GUI opens (similar to this one, unless there is any other GUI available in the market, lols)

2. You will notice the drive letters being shown. Example, A, B, C, D. Let us image you are using C:UsersPCUSERNAMEHEREDownloads, the downloads folder for saving your file. It maybe any file. ISO, ZIP, RAR, Executable, or anything at all. Please note any ISO/Mountable file being shared needs to be mounted (be it Windows or Linux OS you use, mount it), and then the path where the file gets mounted to needs to be scanned. Example let us say I mount 123.ISO and it gets mounted to G drive. In that case, after mounting, when I open clamscan, the GUI will show G drive letter as well. See example in the image below, where the G drive is the DVD Drive (icon also shows DVD). Even better if you can share the snap of the actual explorer drive like image one below, where it shows actually what ISO file I have mounted (of course not everything can be used or shown, and there is a certain level of trust imbibed by default):

3. Now in order to show the actual file/folder being scanned, double click the drive letter where it is kept / mounted. In the 2 examples images, the first one shows the file/folder path as: C:Users/PCUSERNAMEHERE/Downloads (select and highlight the file/folder you want to scan) The second image shows an ISO file I mounted for this tutorial purposes on Drive G. Select the Drive Letter (you can expand all folders within the drive in clamscan app)

Tip: Select SHIFT Key to select multiple files/folders/drive letters.

The above images are for your understanding purposes and not exactly how you need to share the final snapshot. See point 4 for the next step.

4. After selecting the file/folder/drive letter, ensure you place the main clamscan app screen at the very top of your PC screen. Then click scan for the scanning to start. Example snap has me just scanning the 7z file here, and hence I have placed the scanning progress screen in alignment with just the file name highlighted here (you can see the highlight via the greying of the selected file name). BTW, be sure your virus signature database is updated from Tools > Download Virus Database Update After the virus database loads (time to load depends on the number of signature bases against the file hash and the size that the clamscan reads against the file/folder items and also the CPU running load. At one point, the progress status shows the name of the file/folder being scanned as well. You maybe able to take the snap of it, or may not (smaller items, the progress status runs away in a click). My second snap shows the same. Finally the scan results will pull up in the status with the scan details including the file size and the time taken etc details. See the 3rd snsapshot for the details. The third image is the final image usually to share as your virus scan result in the example of 7Z scanning.

The first image below shows the G Drive (where my ISO is mounted) details which have started to scan. The second image shows the drive fully scanned and the scan results with the specifics and details of the scan. The second image is the final image usually to share as your virus scan result in the example for ISO mount scanning.

The final image is what you must usually share here, which not just shows the scan results, but also the file/folder being scanned by you.

Any & all suggestions as well as comments are welcome. :)