[clamav-users] Problem to update virus database

Matus UHLAR - fantomas uhlar at fantomas.sk
Fri Jan 24 10:55:55 UTC 2020


On 24.01.20 11:10, Tomasz Mejer via clamav-users wrote:
>I have installed ClamAV on my Ubuntu 16.04 LTS machine. I can't update
>virus database update.
>When I run:
>
>sudo freshclam

you should not run freshclam under root user. You should keep it for
freshclam daemon. This way you can prevent the aemon from running properly,
because of permission problems.

>i got:
>"Download failed (28)
>"getcvd: Can't download daily.cvd from https://database.clamav.net/daily.cvd

try running 'https://database.clamav.net/daily.cvd' in /tmp
to see if it's accessible for you.

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