[clamav-users] "Starting tor daemon" is the last thing I see during shutdown

[Gene Heskett]

On Wednesday 21 October 2015 15:57:58 amenex at amenex.com wrote:

> After cleaning up my starting routine with Boot-Up Manager in Trisquel
> 7 GNU/Linux, I got rid of a lot of strange shutdown messages from
> un-needed applications that appeared so briefly that I could not read
> them well, much less capture them.
>
> However, now that things are under better control, I know that the
> second-to-last thing the system does is upgrade my ClamAV database by
> running freeclam. Then it says, "Starting tor daemon."
>
> Why should that be ? I'm running ABrowser, but I've never invoked or
> used tor knowingly.
>
> Is this last step a necessary part of the ClamAv operation ?
>
I sure wouldn't think so.  Have you run the rootkit checkers?  That would 
be my first thought.

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Cheers, Gene Heskett
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