[LUNI] Request Help with ClamAv

[Svaldi, Fred E GS]

Roberto,

I actually have a cousin in Italy named Roberto.  Ciao, Roberto!

I run ClamAv on my personal computer only.  I have heard I do not need
to run an anti-virus program, but I still do so out of habit.

I did this mainly as an exercise to understand how to compile from
source, and to learn how to work through configuration problems.

So....if anyone can help me figure out how to resolve the error messages
(see below), or point me in the right direction, that would be great.
If the solution is somewhat intuitive, I could probably figure it out
with just a little help.

Fred

-----Original Message-----
From: luni-bounces at luni.org [mailto:luni-bounces at luni.org] On Behalf Of
Roberto Serrano
Sent: Friday, July 27, 2007 9:01 AM
To: Linux Users Of Northern Illinois - Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: [LUNI] Request Help with ClamAv

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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