Comments on: Clam AntiVirus (ClamAV) Setup Howto for RHEL/CentOS 5

By: micheal

micheal — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:06:13 +0000

Very helpful Website! Thanks for sharing

By: Jourdan

Jourdan — Fri, 15 May 2009 05:18:48 +0000

Hi, I have problem to update the virus pattern files. The error is as below.

ClamAV update process started at Fri May 15 13:08:21 2009
WARNING: Can’t query current.cvd.clamav.net
WARNING: Invalid DNS reply. Falling back to HTTP mode.
Reading CVD header (main.cvd): WARNING: Can’t get information about db.local.clamav.net: Name or service not known
WARNING: Can’t read main.cvd header from db.local.clamav.net (IP: )
Trying again in 5 secs…

Any solution for this? Thanks a lot!

By: Ram

Ram — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 19:56:05 +0000

Good one! thanks for sharing!

By: jdharm

jdharm — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 18:55:51 +0000

#5 by consultant did the trick. Thanks for that.

By: consultant

consultant — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 11:59:21 +0000

Hi Mohan,

There’s no ready made package for Fedora 8 so you’ll have to install from source

http://www.clamav.net/download/sources

By: Mohan

Mohan — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 06:40:35 +0000

Hi,

I’m using Fedora 8…I couldn’t find any link to download Clamav antivirus ..can u send any link to install tat Clamav..

By: James

James — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 11:49:50 +0000

Roger that. Thank you.

By: consultant

consultant — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 13:59:03 +0000

Hi james,

Use the freshclam command in a terminal window to update the virus database.

By: james

james — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 09:51:53 +0000

How do you update the virus database?

By: consultant

consultant — Fri, 09 May 2008 13:27:58 +0000

You can fix it by changing the extension of the file /etc/yum.repos.d/rpmforge.repo to remove rpmforge. You can install ClamAV manually using the steps I described in one of the comment I made above.