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title: "How to Configure ClamAV on Cloud Platform"
date: "2024-11-03T23:15:35+00:00"
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**Note**

This article only covers Acquia’s Kubernetes version of **Acquia Cloud** infrastructure, previously referred to as **Cloud Next**.

If your site is hosted on [**Acquia Cloud Platform**](/node/55808), you can enhance its security by configuring [**ClamAV**](https://www.clamav.net/)**,** an antivirus engine designed to detect various types of malicious software, including viruses.  
  
Unlike [**Acquia Cloud Classic**](/node/55808), where daemon mode is not available, the **Acquia Cloud Platform**, supports daemon mode by default, which provides efficient virus scanning capabilities.  
  
The [**ClamAV**](https://www.drupal.org/project/clamav) **Drupal module** is compatible with all versions of Drupal versions 7 and above. It integrates with [**ClamAV**](https://www.clamav.net/) to scan files uploaded using the standard Drupal form file uploads.  
  
**STEPS**

1.  Navigate to the **Configuration** section of your Drupal site's administrative interface.
2.  Select the **ClamAV** configuration option.
3.  In the Scan method, select "**Executable**". Due to Cloud Next's default support for daemon mode, even if you select 'Executable', Cloud Next utilizes daemon mode under the hood for optimal performance.
4.  Enter the path to the ClamAV executable in the **Executable path** field. Typically, this path is `/usr/bin/clamscan`.
5.  In **Verbosity**, select the **verbose** checkbox.
6.  Click the **Save configuration** button to apply your settings.

![ClamAV configuration screen with integration enabled. Scan mechanism set to "Executable" with path "/usr/bin/clamscan."](https://acquia.widen.net/content/5487da4b-5e27-4a35-8c79-5b49c99eca3b/web/ka0Pb0000003bO100N6g00000VCdgi0EMPb000001yI37.png)

Once configured, [**ClamAV**](https://www.clamav.net/) will automatically scan all files uploaded to your application.

If you would like to learn more about how [**ClamAV**](https://www.clamav.net/) operates on our platform, read more detailed information on our [Enabling virus scanning for file uploads](/node/56291) page.

If you face any issues, [contact Acquia Support](/service-offerings/contacting-acquia-support "Contacting Acquia Support").