I hope you don't mind me starting a new thread when this is related to several existing threads, but I wanted to get away from the topics where the problem is being assigned to reasons like incompatible versions or multiple config files.
My explorations started a few days ago when a SomeFool virus wasn't recognised, and I mailed the authors on the contact address from the web page, only to be told that I had a config error and that I should read the current threads to understand it. Since then I have been reading for some days, am reasonably up to date on the issues, and have been extremely rigorous in checking my facts. I have only one .conf file (/usr/local/etc/freshclam.conf), and only one main.cvd and daily.cvd on my entire system (in /usr/local/share/clamav). I deleted every other copy on the system (which was only the one in the source directory anyway). I have only one copy of freshclam and one copy of clamscan. I'm not using clamdscan and clamd is not running. I deleted all the tmp directories and db files. I have a clearly infected test file, which the online web page upload does recognise as infected, and as you can see below it is not recognised. I am 5 nines certain that my config is by the book. And after doing all the above carefully, I wiped out the entire installation, and re-installed from scratch with the latest development version. It behaves exactly the same. I have run both freshclam and clamscan under 'strace' and confirmed that they are accessing the same config file (successfully) and the same cvd files. There is a problem here. The authors need to address it and stop blaming the users. I will be happy to make any tests and supply logs that will help them diagnose this problem. Graham ------ pizzabox:/usr/local/src/clamav-devel-20040505 # freshclam --version freshclam / ClamAV version devel-20040505 pizzabox:/usr/local/src/clamav-devel-20040505 # clamscan --version clamscan / ClamAV version devel-20040505 pizzabox:/usr/local/src/clamav-devel-20040505 # freshclam ClamAV update process started at Thu May 6 21:18:41 2004 Reading CVD header (main.cvd): OK main.cvd is up to date (version: 22, sigs: 20229, f-level: 1, builder: tkojm) Reading CVD header (daily.cvd): OK daily.cvd is up to date (version: 305, sigs: 1208, f-level: 2, builder: diego) pizzabox:/usr/local/src/clamav-devel-20040505 # clamscan /tmp/virus.test /tmp/virus.test: OK ----------- SCAN SUMMARY ----------- Known viruses: 21437 Scanned directories: 0 Scanned files: 1 Infected files: 0 Data scanned: 0.07 MB I/O buffer size: 131072 bytes Time: 0.925 sec (0 m 0 s) ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by Sleepycat Software Learn developer strategies Cisco, Motorola, Ericsson & Lucent use to deliver higher performing products faster, at low TCO. http://www.sleepycat.com/telcomwpreg.php?From=osdnemail3 _______________________________________________ Clamav-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/clamav-users
