Graham Watkins wrote:
However, the Law of Excremental Occurrences has just kicked in. Just tried to run a scan and got the following message:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] graham]# clamscan -r /
LibClamAV Error: cl_hex2str(): Malformed hexstring: 633a5c312e626174000000003a2a3a456e6162 (length: 97)373637300000053797374656d5c43757272656e74436f
LibClamAV Error: readdb(): Malformed pattern line 1617 (file /var/lib/clamav/viruses.db2).
ERROR: Malformed database.
----------- SCAN SUMMARY ----------- Known viruses: 21793 Scanned directories: 0 Scanned files: 0 Infected files: 0 Data scanned: 0.00 MB I/O buffer size: 131072 bytes Time: 1.545 sec (0 m 1 s)
This suggests that I have a corrupted virus database. Can I do anything about this or do I just have to wait until it it is updated?
Just a ps to the above - tried renaming the existing db2 so I could download a new one via freshclam. This went successfully but on attempting to scan got the same as above. Looks like the problem is at clam's end. I shall mail them.
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