Having the same problem with one of my Linux servers, also running 0.98.7. (No I can't upgrade it... not yet anyways.)
Todd A. Aiken Systems Analyst & Administrator ITS Department BISHOP'S UNIVERSITY 2600 College Street Sherbrooke, Quebec CANADA J1M 1Z7 -------- Having a technology issue? Visit https://octopus.ubishops.ca to place a ticket directly into our ITS work order system. This is the best way to get your requests to ITS and provide more detailed information for our analysts and technicians. -----Original Message----- From: clamav-users <[email protected]> on behalf of Albert Park <[email protected]> Reply-To: ClamAV users ML <[email protected]> Date: Friday, June 16, 2017 at 12:55 PM To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Subject: [clamav-users] Failed to load new database: Malformed database Since June 15th we haven't been able to download a version of the database that our installation will take. We're using the RHEL provided version 0.98.7. We are getting the following for every freshclam run: -> ERROR: Failed to load new database: Malformed database -> ERROR: During database load : ERROR: Failed to load new database: Malformed database -> WARNING: Database load exited with status 55 -> ERROR: Failed to load new database We also went to clamav.net and manually downloaded the current database files: http://database.clamav.net/main.cvd http://database.clamav.net/daily.cvd http://database.clamav.net/bytecode.cvd Trying to load them into clamd resulted in: -> Reading databases from /var/lib/clamav -> ERROR: reload db failed: Malformed database -> Terminating because of a fatal error. -> Pid file removed. -> --- Stopped at Fri Jun 16 09:45:06 2017 -> Socket file removed. Thanks in advance for any assistance! _______________________________________________ clamav-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.clamav.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/clamav-users Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: https://github.com/vrtadmin/clamav-faq http://www.clamav.net/contact.html#ml _______________________________________________ clamav-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.clamav.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/clamav-users Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: https://github.com/vrtadmin/clamav-faq http://www.clamav.net/contact.html#ml
