[Pkg-clamav-devel] Clamav in stable

[Stephen Gran]

This one time, at band camp, Bjoern Meier said:
> Hi,
> 
> Stephen Gran wrote:
> > This one time, at band camp, Bjoern Meier said:
> >   
> >> hi,
> >> I've installed a fresh Debian Etch to test clamav. Could it be, that
> >> there a two bugs?:
> >>     
> >
> > I think they are the same problem, see below.
> >
> >   
> >> - freshclam seems to hang if you want to update the sigs
> >> - if you use postfix with amavis the email keeps in queue and
> >> clamav-scan hangs with 100% cpu usage.
> >>     
> >
> > The version of clamav in etch has a very hard time loading signatures of
> > a certain type that came into use after the release of etch.  freshclam
> > will try to load and validate the signtures, which is why it seems to
> > hang for a long time.  Also, I am guessing that you're using clamscan
> > with amavis (not clamdscan), which will suffer the same problem.
> >
> > I highly recommend using the packages of clamav available from
> > http://volatile.debian.org/
> >
> > Cheers,
> 
> well, I use volatile. But I have a hard discussion with Peer Heinlein
> (maybe you know him, if not he had wrote some very good books about LPI
> and Postfix), he says (on a public lists) that the pakage is NOT working
> and I must agree. So I hoped we could bring something on the way.

I'd prefer to keep replies on list, if that's ok with you.

Are you using 3rd party signatures (sanesecurity, etc)?  It's working
just fine for me, and judging by the lack of bug reports saying "it's
not working", I have to assume it works for most other people as well.

Can you provide more information?
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