since the last 4 days clam av is not getting updated. clamtk reports antivirus signatures outdated. sudo freshclam starts the update which is about 55 mb but the update fails at around 17 mb. this is with a fresh install of both 18.04.3 & 19.10. can a mdl linux user be kind enough to confirm if he / she faces the same problem on ubuntu or any other distro?
I'm on Debian 10 Testing, and clamav (app and sigs) updated today, no problem. I hope yours does soon!
just tried it again but no such luck. manual update via sudo freshclam fails at around 17mb. manual update via clamtk says downloading but when done the antivirus signatures version stays at zero. thanks a ton for the information.
I just saw your latest post, so I checked mine again in Debian 10 Testing. I'm using the clamav GUI (ClamTK) to download the sigs on a schedule and then run the scan. It updated fine just a few miutes ago according to the log, and running the scan now. The log is here on my PC: /var/log/clamav/freshclam.log I have no clue why yours isn't updating. I did a quick search online but found no reports of recent issues with clamav. I DO know the program (not just the sig update) was updated via apt just the other day on my PC.
i thought it was a goof-up from the clamav side because the problem persists on both neon & ubuntu. since there are no issues on debian as stated by you i am assuming it is an ubuntu issue & neon is an ubuntu derivative hence...but i could be wrong. clamtk was alerting about a newer version of the program for almost 4 months before the update came through via ubuntu updates last month. @ktgrrl truly appreciate your feedback.
I hope the new version fixed your problem! Debian was slow to send the clamav program update, too, but I wasn't too concerned about it. I don't usually pay much attention to clamav. When I install it I just set it to update & scan every file on my PC automatically every night. If it misses a sig update I don't fret about it. The only scan warning I ever get is for PUPs in a couple of reliable old Win utility programs I've had for years and only occasionally use, but I only download exe's in WIn 7 running inside VirtualBox under Linux, so if Win 7 eats a bad download or otherwise gets corrupted I can easily wipe & re-install it from a clean backup. I've never seen any warnings about any of my Linux files! I hope that means it really does check for known Linux baddies and my PC really is clean. So far I've had no reason to believe otherwise, but I'm careful online with a few pretty well locked-down, dedicated-use browsers. I consider clamav as a good safety net for Win users if I need to transfer files to a Win PC. I hope all is well for you now!
naaah, the program update came through last month but the update failed issue has surfaced since since a week now & still persists on neon & ubuntu. there is nothing windows on my ubuntu machine barring a samba connection with my 10 machine which i believe is squeaky clean. on ubuntu clamav did quarantine malware that got in to my temp files via firefox owing to a browser re-direct from a particular site i would visit. am waiting for the update thingy to be fixed either by clam or by ubuntu.
cool. the error report is pretty much the same as mine. will work on the solutions later today & keep you posted. have had the same internet connection with the same speed since over a decade now & the clamav updates have never been an issue earlier. @ktgrrl kudos for the find & thanks for the tips / inputs.
operation successful. looks good on ubuntu as well but am gonna hold my horses for now & see if the issue re-surfaces. b.t.w., ubuntu got updated to 18.04.4 although an official iso has not yet been released.
the latest stable clamav release is 0.102.2 while what i have is : 0.102.1 / 25720 / Mon Feb 10 17:23:41 2020 @ktgrrl can you please check the program & signature version you got & post it? thanks in advance.
Sure. My clamav is 0.102.1++dfsg and clamTK is 6.02 according to Synaptic. So if the latest clamav is 0.102.2 then I don't have it yet. Debian is rock-stable even in Testing, and security updates come right away, but it's not always lightning-fast to offer the latest app updates. If I really need an app update right away I get it from the dev's site. Most of the time I don't need the very latest, except for browser security updates. My current sigs version is 25720 as of Tue Feb 11 08:40:54 2020 when I requested an update manually. That's the same version as last night. According to the log my sigs are updating on schedule and also when I update manually, since the log records the dates & times & sig version for each update request. It also sometimes records failure to download sigs, but I attribute that to slow internet access. Living in the sticks has many rewards, but cell towers & high-speed internet aren't among them, and satellite is outside my budget! If no NEW sigs are offered on a given day then the version recorded in the log won't change, but that's not the same as failure to download. I often turn off my PCs overnight or even for several days if I'm away or need a digital break, so of course sigs can't update those nights. That doesn't worry me at all. For years the only warning clamav has reported on any of my Linux machines is a PUA for the same portable app (Rufus) I occasionally run in Win 7 under VirtualBox in Linux. If I dual-booted Win (any) and took it online I'd run a lot more than just clamav! I hope your clamav is updating again!