[clamav-win32] Clamd terminating (Malformed database)

[Martin Clayton]

Phil in <007601c90441$2bf6cdf0$0600a8c0 at phil>:

Hi Phil,

> 1. It seems to be detecting database modifications when freshclam has not been run.
> 2. After a number of hours it bombs out saying that the database is corrupt but when restarted it is quite happy again.

Some shots in the dark...

In case it's just data corruption I'd delete data\*.cvd and re-run 
freshclam. If the problem persists after the download look for anything 
interesting in "freshclam -v --debug" and "clamd --debug".

I'm not sure which distribution you're using but I'd check the .conf 
files for paths with spaces - these might need to be quoted (with speech 
marks), e.g., "C:\Program Files\ClamAV\data".

The official port expects C:\WINDOWS\TEMP which isn't a default under 
Win2k so you may need to create the directory or edit clamd.conf.

Cheers,
Martin