[LUNI] Request Help with ClamAv

[Roberto Serrano]

Are you running this in a server, or are you tunning this in your personal
computer.  Clam AV is mostly a product design for a Linux Server working in
a windows environment.  As far as I know, Clam AV is mostly design to detect
windows viruses.

I don't use anti-virus in any of me Linux computers - and Linux is the only
thing I use.  Most people I know, that use Linux, don't use anti-virus.

So if this is for personal use, I know is weird coming from windows, but you
don't need anti-virus.  You need a good backup strategy and that is all.

Roberto

On 7/27/07, Svaldi, Fred E GS <Fred.Svaldi at med.navy.mil> wrote:
>
> To all,
>
> Can anyone help?
>
> I am relatively new to Linux.  I attempted to compile ClamAv from source
> to get the latest version.  I removed my original ClamAv installation
> package before starting.  I downloaded the source code, and, as far as I
> could tell, got it installed using "./configure, make, and sudo make
> install."
>
> I then ran freshclam from the command line and received some error
> messages, with instructions to edit the example config file for
> freshclam.config, and also to edit the example config file for
> clamd.config.  Another error message noted that I could not parse the
> example clamd.config (or something like that).  I could not manage to
> work past this.
>
> Then, I installed clamTk from the synaptic packages (I use Ubuntu Edgy
> Eft), which is an older version of the current clamTk version per the
> clamTk home page.  When clamTk installed, it appeared to re-install the
> older (0.88) version of ClamAv.  I went to Synaptic Package Manager and
> the older ClamAv package is marked as installed.
>
> How can I tell what version of ClamAv I actually have on my system?  I
> have confirmation that my signatures are up to date, and I can run scans
> via the clamTk GUI.
>
> If anyone has any suggestions I would appreciate it.
>
> Regards, F. S.
>
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