Hmmmmm...
Betty, what are you trying to accomplish?
From
http://www.clamav.net :
"Clam AntiVirus is an open source (GPL) anti-virus toolkit for UNIX,
designed especially for e-mail scanning on mail gateways."
Are you running a "mail gateway"?
Do you even know what it is?
(Now risking to be burned on a bonfire)
Is there any value in compromising the performance of a machine by scanning
for viruses that mostly only exist in M$ junk?
There are LOTS of articles about it, and I chose the next one fairly
randomly:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/10/06/linux_vs_windows_viruses/
I would not waste my time (and bog down my machine) looking for mostly
unexisting threats. Sounds to me like creating real problems to prevent
potential problems or vaccinating against "headaches".
Clamav is a complex sucker, I run it on my "mail gateway"
(Yes, I run one)
My free advice?
apt-get uninstall clamav
Fire away...
ET
betty writes:
> ok, that is great. i looked and i did download freshclam and it is set to
> update every hour !
> how cool is that. now i'll figure out how to set it up to scan once a day
> or something i guess?
> thank you so much.
> betty i.
>
> Joseph Sinclair wrote:
>> ClamAV is typically updated via a separate package called FreshClam (in
>> Ubuntu, apt-get install clamav-freshclam).
>> freshclam is a background daemon that updates the AV signatures
>> automatically based on settings in /etc/clamav/freshclam.conf (default us
>> typically to check every hour).
>>
>> You can control the update frequency from the clamtk window (if it's
>> *very* recent, many distros are behind in this) via advanced|schedule.
>>
>> If you prefer using a GUI, you might also look at klamav, which is a KDE
>> frontend for clam. Be warned klamav brings in dazuko and does on-access
>> scanning, which is probably not needed for Linux systems, and may be
>> harmful to system performance and stability.
>>
>>
>> ==Joseph++
>>
>> betty wrote:
>>
>>> stupid question alert; please do not read if you have no patience.
>>>
>>> I am using clamAV and clam tk, (3.05) so that i can use the gui.
>>> it's supposed to have automatic updates, how will i know if it is
>>> updating it's signatures? [using a gui]
>>> does it run itself automatically or do i need to do that every so often?
>>> thanks again for all the help.
>>>
>>> betty i.
>>>
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