[clamav-win32] Re: Malformed database

[Nigel Horne]

On Tue, 2006-11-14 at 09:41 +0100, xeres wrote:
> "Nigel Horne" <njh at bandsman.co.uk> wrote in message 
> news:1163430661.8817.17.camel at localhost...
> > On Mon, 2006-11-13 at 14:19 +0100, xeres wrote:
> >> A few minutes ago I downloaded main.cvd and daily.cvd from
> >> http://www.clamav.net/. cl_loaddbdir() now fails (-5 Malformed database)
> >>
> >> I even tried to update database through ClamWin application 
> >> (Tools->Download
> >> Virus Database Update). Results are still the same - .
> >
> > Are you using ClamWin, or the code from w32.clamav.net?
> 
> Code from w32.clamav.net.

In that case either use "freshclam", or the powertools from
www.bandsman.co.uk/clamav.htm to update your database.

> 
> All updates till yesterday worked perfectly fine. Yesterday I also 
> downloaded latest source code and recompiled the whole thing. It didn't 
> help.