[clamav-users] Update problem today

[Paul Smith]

On 23/04/2022 19:26, Mark Pizzolato - Clamav-Win32 wrote:
> Yesterday afternoon, the desktop computer's freshclam update attempts continued
> failing and along with these failures I was getting Windows Defender alerts about an
> issue being detected with the onaccess Windows Defender scanning.  When I dug
> into those reports, they pointed at a temp file in the clamav database directory
> that freshclam was creating during the unpacking/update process.  The Windows
> Defender quarantine process interrupted the freshclam update...  This may be
> happening to you...  I added a Windows Defender exclusion form the clamav
> database directory and the updates subsequently succeeded.
Thanks for the idea, but it wasn't that. The ClamAV directory was not 
being scanned by any other virus scanner, and surely, even if it was, 
that wouldn't cause Freshclam to download an out-dated daily.cvd file

The problem 'magically' disappeared as soon as the 26522 update was 
published, so, to me, it really looks as if there were bad files on one 
of the mirrors. The later update would have replaced that with a correct 
file, so it all works again.

Paul

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