disable clamd

if I have pop3 disabled and don't have any mail accounts, can I disable clamd?

 

You can disable clamd without disabling your pop3. Clamd is a daemon should be available in the service list. You can simply do the following to find clamd and kill it:

Find clamd PID:

ps -axww|grep clamd

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This will generate a few lines regarding the clamd processes. Find the PID listed there for the clamd process(s)

And run this command to kill them:

kill -9 YourPID

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Put your PID in the place i said "YourPID".

This will eventually terminate your clamd from running. If you have cpanel, you can permanently disable it from your WHM >> Service Manager

Good luck

 

/etc/init.d/clamd stop

 

yeah but should I? do I really need clamd?

 

If you are not using email service then there is no need of clamd service. You can stop it.