Freshclam keeps failing for me. I delete the Mirrors.dat file and try again. Sometime it works, sometimes it claims that all of the mirrors are not synchronised.
This is the sort of thing I get running freshclam: $ sudo freshclam Password: ClamAV update process started at Thu Mar 12 09:56:45 2015 main.cvd is up to date (version: 55, sigs: 2424225, f-level: 60, builder: neo) WARNING: getfile: daily-20178.cdiff not found on remote server (IP: 193.1.193.64) WARNING: getpatch: Can't download daily-20178.cdiff from db.AU.clamav.net Trying host db.AU.clamav.net (117.104.160.194)... WARNING: getfile: daily-20178.cdiff not found on remote server (IP: 117.104.160.194) WARNING: getpatch: Can't download daily-20178.cdiff from db.AU.clamav.net WARNING: getpatch: Can't download daily-20178.cdiff from db.AU.clamav.net WARNING: Incremental update failed, trying to download daily.cvd Downloading daily.cvd [100%] WARNING: Mirror 117.104.160.194 is not synchronized. Trying again in 5 secs... ClamAV update process started at Thu Mar 12 09:56:56 2015 main.cvd is up to date (version: 55, sigs: 2424225, f-level: 60, builder: neo) Trying host db.AU.clamav.net (193.1.193.64)... WARNING: getfile: daily-20178.cdiff not found on remote server (IP: 193.1.193.64) WARNING: getpatch: Can't download daily-20178.cdiff from db.AU.clamav.net WARNING: getpatch: Can't download daily-20178.cdiff from db.AU.clamav.net WARNING: getpatch: Can't download daily-20178.cdiff from db.AU.clamav.net WARNING: Incremental update failed, trying to download daily.cvd Downloading daily.cvd [100%] WARNING: Mirror 117.104.160.194 is not synchronized. Trying again in 5 secs... ClamAV update process started at Thu Mar 12 09:57:04 2015 main.cvd is up to date (version: 55, sigs: 2424225, f-level: 60, builder: neo) Trying host db.AU.clamav.net (193.1.193.64)... WARNING: getfile: daily-20178.cdiff not found on remote server (IP: 193.1.193.64) WARNING: getpatch: Can't download daily-20178.cdiff from db.AU.clamav.net WARNING: getpatch: Can't download daily-20178.cdiff from db.AU.clamav.net ERROR: getpatch: Can't download daily-20178.cdiff from db.AU.clamav.net WARNING: Incremental update failed, trying to download daily.cvd Downloading daily.cvd [100%] WARNING: Mirror 117.104.160.194 is not synchronized. Giving up on db.AU.clamav.net... ClamAV update process started at Thu Mar 12 09:57:06 2015 main.cvd is up to date (version: 55, sigs: 2424225, f-level: 60, builder: neo) Trying host database.clamav.net (193.1.193.64)... WARNING: getfile: daily-20178.cdiff not found on remote server (IP: 193.1.193.64) WARNING: getpatch: Can't download daily-20178.cdiff from database.clamav.net WARNING: getpatch: Can't download daily-20178.cdiff from database.clamav.net ERROR: getpatch: Can't download daily-20178.cdiff from database.clamav.net WARNING: Incremental update failed, trying to download daily.cvd Downloading daily.cvd [100%] WARNING: Mirror 117.104.160.194 is not synchronized. Giving up on database.clamav.net... Update failed. Your network may be down or none of the mirrors listed in /usr/local/etc/freshclam.conf is working. Check http://www.clamav.net/doc/mirrors-faq.html for possible reasons. Is it just the Australian mirrors that are the problem? Should I get my country to be somewhere else? They are very unreliable - obviously running with outdated signatures is not good! Any suggestions? Shouldn’t it try another server when db.AU.clamav.net <http://db.au.clamav.net/> fails? Looks like in the above example it keeps trying 193.1.193.64 and 117.104.160.194. Thanks, James. _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: https://github.com/vrtadmin/clamav-faq http://www.clamav.net/contact.html#ml
