[Pkg-clamav-devel] help getting clamav working

Michael Tautschnig mt at debian.org
Tue Dec 15 07:04:30 UTC 2009


> Can anyone tell me what this means and how top fix and have clamav 
> working 
> 
> On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 12:47:39 +0000, Chris Taylor wrote:
> 
> > chris at chris-desktop:~$ clamscan
> > LibClamAV Error: cli_loadmd5: Malformed MD5 string at line 595 LibClamAV
> > Error: cli_loadmd5: Problem parsing database at line 595 LibClamAV
> > Error: Can't load daily.mdb: Malformed database LibClamAV Error:
> > cli_tgzload: Can't load daily.mdb LibClamAV Error: Can't load
> > /var/lib/clamav//daily.cld: Malformed database ERROR: Malformed database
> > 

[...]

Apparently your database is broken; maybe some download of updates by freshclam
got interrupted. You might want to stop clamav-freshclam and run freshclam
manually.

HTH,
Michael

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