You can calculate MD5 checksums yourself, on Linux systems anyway. The command is just 'md5sum <filename>'. The checksum I get for viruses.db2 is:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# md5sum viruses.db2
55955463c72c1ef803ef05c8a3cc9aa2 viruses.db2


I don't know what good this does us, however. You could go into the source code and recompile freshclam to ignore the md5 checksum, but that is a REALLY bad idea.

Either the viruses.db2 file needs to be updated on the web site, or the md5 checksum does. Unfortunately we can't do either.

Ted

--On Monday, June 23, 2003 1:47 PM -0500 Mike_G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Hello ... running Suse linux 8.0, 8.1, 8.2 and clamav-0.54 , clamav-0.60

A week or so ago my updates with freshclam started failing with the error

   ERROR: Can't connect to port 80 of host clamav.elektrapro.com
   ERROR: Connection with clamav.elektrapro.com failed.

It did this for a day or two and since then I've been getting the error.

   ERROR: The checksum of viruses.db2 database isn't ok. Please check it
yourself or try again.

I was running clamav-0.54 and since upgraded to clamav-0.60 but it has
made no difference I've also deleted the virus defs and tried a fresh
download, but no joy.

Can sombody clue me in, or is the checksum of viruses.db2 hosed?
How do I check it myself?

TIA -- Mike




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