Daniel J McDonald wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 22:21 +0100, Cristiano Paris wrote:
>> Sorry to post what is likely to be a silly question.
>>
>> I've just installed 0.88 version of clamav and I'm seeking to test it
>> out. I'm using an email I've received: I've saved the mail to an eml
>> file that I feeded to clamdscan. Anyway, clamd seems to find nothing.
> 
> Did you run freshclam to get the most recent pattern files?
> 
> try clamscan --detect-broken  in addition to clamdscan...

Running freshclam fixed the problem. I mistakenly thought that an
up-to-date fresh installation of clamav carried an up-to-date virus
signature database as well. I was simply wrong.

Thanks!

Cristiano
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