[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/local/share/clamav # md5sum -c viruses.md5 viruses.db: OK
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/local/share/clamav # md5sum -c viruses2.md5 viruses.db2: FAILED md5sum: WARNING: 1 of 1 computed checksum did NOT match
So I guess the checksum on the website is bad, or the virues.db2 has been tampered with?
I'm inclined to just ignore the error, except that the error causes the download of viruses.db2
to failed. I guess that won't matter until a new viruses.db2 in made when presumably there
will be a new viruses2.md5.
I'm a little concerned since I thought the purpose of the checksum was to vailidate
the trustworthiness of the file, but apparently no one else is concerned since I can't
find boo about it in the archives.
--Mike
Ted Fines wrote:
You can calculate MD5 checksums yourself, on Linux systems anyway. The command is just 'md5sum <filename>'. The checksum I get for viruses.db2 is:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# md5sum viruses.db2
55955463c72c1ef803ef05c8a3cc9aa2 viruses.db2
I don't know what good this does us, however. You could go into the source code and recompile freshclam to ignore the md5 checksum, but that is a REALLY bad idea.
Either the viruses.db2 file needs to be updated on the web site, or the md5 checksum does. Unfortunately we can't do either.
Ted
--On Monday, June 23, 2003 1:47 PM -0500 Mike_G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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