On Wed, 09 Oct 2002, Frank Gevaerts wrote: > > Has anybody tried clamscan yet ? After I installed it, together with > > oavupdate, it doesn't seem to work. oav-update retrieves the latest > > virus definitions from the net, but clamscan doesn't seem to like that > > file. For example, when I execute 'clamscan -d > > /var/lib/oav-update/viruses.db', I get 'ERROR: hex2int() translation > > problem (69). ERROR: Can't initialize virus database' And ofcourse, I > > can't find that 69 error code anywhere...
> try 'freshclam'. It is included in the clamav package, and downloads > virus signatures from the clamav author (not exactly the same as the oav > ones). They recognize at least klez and bugbear. Frank, thanks for the tip: those signatures work and I'm able to scan my disks. However, I'm still getting the translation error. Thanks, Dick
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