Joseph Silva Electrical Engineer & IT Professional

12Oct/090

Manually Update ClamAV Virus Definitions

Procedure

Visit the ClamAV website for the latest definitions (you have to right click and choose save link as… on the menu) and save them in your home directory, or just open up a terminal and do this..

wget http://db.local.clamav.net/main.cvd

then..

wget http://db.local.clamav.net/daily.cvd

and..

sudo mv daily.cvd main.cvd /var/lib/clamav

Which will move the newly downloaded files to the correct /var/lib/clamav directory.
Now enter your admin password & you should have completely up to date virus definitions

WARNING: This will only work if the ClamAV team use the same link every time for the daily updates?

Source

Ubuntu-FS

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