[clamav-users] Eicar test string now returning Win.Trojan.Trojan-605

[Al Varnell]

Those are normal messages for an update of this kind.  The 21465.cdiff was purposely blank in order to force you to download the entire daily.cvd.  Give it plenty of time as the main.cvd is 109MB.

Technical details: <http://blog.clamav.net/2016/03/clamav-signature-interface-maintenance.html>

-Al-

On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 08:56 PM, Jason J. W. Williams wrote:
> 
> Thanks. Hopefully it'll sync up soon. I'm getting weird download errors out
> of freshclam:
> 
> WARNING: getfile: Error while reading database from db.local.clamav.net
> (IP: 200.236.31.1): Operation now in progress
> WARNING: getpatch: Can't download daily-21465.cdiff from db.local.clamav.net
> nonblock_recv: recv timing out (30 secs)
> WARNING: getfile: Error while reading database from db.local.clamav.net
> (IP: 194.186.47.19): Operation now in progress
> WARNING: getpatch: Can't download daily-21465.cdiff from db.local.clamav.net
> Empty script daily-21465.cdiff, need to download entire database
> 
> On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 8:54 PM, Al Varnell <alvarnell at mac.com> wrote:
> 
>> The new database was just made available, so I recommend you hold off
>> until you have the new mail.cvd v57 and daily.cvd v21466 before getting too
>> excited about this.
>> 
>> -Al-
>> 
>> On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 08:49 PM, Jason J. W. Williams wrote:
>>> 
>>> As of the latest daily update, running ClamAV against the EICAR test
>> string
>>> reports  Win.Trojan.Trojan-605 instead of Eicar-Test-Signature.
>>> 
>>> -J
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