[clamav-users] problem for freshclam

[G.W. Haywood]

Hi there,

On Sun, 30 Jan 2022, colin course via clamav-users wrote:

> i  see i should have read your email with  more care
> well done you
>
>
> now if i could only get mine to download some signatures
> but it wont do that as its out of date

Perhaps you should have read my email with more care too:

https://lists.clamav.net/pipermail/clamav-users/2022-January/012257.html

If your laptop still has only 483.4 MiB of RAM then it doesn't meet the
recommended minimum system requirements to run ClamAV - at least to run
clamd and clamscan, using the officially published signature databases.

PLEASE read the documentation:

https://docs.clamav.net/Introduction.html

Scroll down to "Recommended System Requirements".

Even if you do manage to download the signature database, you probably
won't be able to make good use of it.

Until you get more memory for your laptop or another computer, I think
you'll just be wasting your time.

According to

http://www.computer-specifications.com/specifications/Dell-LatitudeD510-Specs.html

it looks like the maximum that you can install will be 2GB.  That's a
little tight, about the bare minimum for running ClamAV, but if the
maximum is only 1GB then I think you'll need a different computer.

2GB of memory for your laptop should be pretty cheap, for example:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/b/PC2-4200-DDR2-533-2GB-RAM/170083/bn_615479

When you have a computer which is reasonably capable of running ClamAV
to scan things it might make sense to talk about downloading databases.

It's pointless complaining here about an out of date ClamAV version
when you're the one who installed it and the latest version is freely
available to you:

https://docs.clamav.net/manual/Installing.html
https://docs.clamav.net/manual/Installing/Packages.html
https://www.clamav.net/downloads

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73,
Ged.