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---id: RHEL-07-030810 status: opt-in tag: misc ---

The STIG requires that a virus scanner is installed and running, but the value of a virus scanner within an OpenStack control plane or on a hypervisor is negligible in many cases. In addition, the disk I/O impact of a virus scanner can impact a production environment negatively.

The security role has tasks to deploy ClamAV with automatic updates, but the tasks are disabled by default.

Deployers can enable the ClamAV virus scanner by setting the following Ansible variable:

security_enable_virus_scanner: yes