ClamAV vs Immunify
I recently upgraded cPanel and received Immunify AV. It looks like my server has ClamAV running on it currently but I enabled Immunify when it prompted me to upon WHM login.
Is is necessary to run both? Do they scan different things?
Thanks for any guidance or advice anyone can provide!
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Immunify actually uses (or used previously) ClamAV for some items at one point, though I believe they've almost removed it from the product completely, it's perfectly fine to have them both, they may have different virus signatures in their databases. The only impact you might see though is increased load. 0 -
Ok, thanks. Sounds like there is some overlap with them, and it's not as if they are doing completely different types of scans. I'd like to disable one since I am trying to keep my server load where it is. :) 0 -
I noticed this morning that my server's backup routine is running during daytime hours, while it usually ran overnight. My guess is that Immunify is running overnight now and perhaps "pushing" the backup to run at a lower-load time, which happens to be later in the morning. Where in WHM do I disable Immunify if I want to test this theory? 0 -
Nevermind -- I found it in WHM. I was searching for "Immunify" and just realized it's called "Imunify" with one "m". :) 0 -
Ok, I'm back with a new question! :) I found the config page for Imunify and set it to "Never" scan, which I assume is how you disable it. Yet I am currently seeing "defence360agent.run " in my process listing and it's using a fair amount of CPU. Googling this item indicates it's part of Imunify. Apparently, I haven't disabled all of it. Any ideas to completely disable all of the Imunify processes? Or perhaps to just uninstall it? 0 -
I was just going to say you can disable scanning in the background by setting it to never but you can also just stop imunify systemctl stop imunify-antivirus
Then restart it when you're ready:systemctl start imunify-antivirus
Which stops the agent from running0 -
Will this stop the service from restarting automatically if the server is rebooted? Or is it best to simply uninstall to ensure it doesn't run in the future? 0 -
Thanks! 0 -
I was just going to say you can disable scanning in the background by setting it to never but you can also just stop imunify
systemctl stop imunify-antivirus
Which stops the agent from running
Will cPanel add an entry to control Imunify from WHM's Service Manager? I think you should, guys. Regards0 -
Also... not having the threats reports being emailed to the server admin email, makes it really useless and hence, not willing to purchase it. 0 -
Hello, You can leave the antivirus that suits you preferred, they do about the same thing, but AV+ has more features, you can find them here Imunify360 - ImunifyAV Thank you 0
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