How to install Malware Detect (Maldet) on CentOS (6 and 7)

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Malware Detect is very easy to install on CentOS, regardless of the control panel you utilize (cPanel/WHM, Directadmin, etc). Maldet also known as Linux Malware Detect virus scanner for Linux.
There is nothing complicated in installation process, but a privileged user access is required, so in case you are on managed server, you can always ask our sysadmins to help you out.

Install maldet on CentOS

cd /usr/local/src/
wget http://www.rfxn.com/downloads/maldetect-current.tar.gz
tar -xzf maldetect-current.tar.gz
cd maldetect-*
sh ./install.sh or sudo sh ./install.sh
maldet --update-ver
maldet --update

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If you want to perform a full scan on your server you can use the following:

maldet -a /home