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Related: is it possible to use ClamAV without the daemon, etc.? I would like to run it manually on specific files/dirs, but I don't know if I can.

Yes you can. I do

  freshclam 
to update the virus DB and then
  clamscan -iorz /
to scan the system.

(see `man clamscan` for the flags)

You can (or could when I used it) but it's coded to ignore some files. MP3 was the one I wanted to scan but couldn't.

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