There is definitely some bug in today's ClamAV update. I have the same problem on all servers running ClamAV (different distributions, different versions).
There is a workaround that worked for me - stop ClamAV daemon, delete all files in /var/lib/clamav, run freshclam manually, then start daemon. On Wed, 06 Mar 2019 13:27:24 +0000 Stanislav Maslovski wrote: > Package: clamav-freshclam > Version: 0.101.1+dfsg-3 > Followup-For: Bug #923867 > > Hi again, > > I stopped the freshclam service and tried running the update from the > command line. The same story, 100% CPU usage, same info shown: > > # freshclam update > Wed Mar 6 13:21:37 2019 -> ClamAV update process started at Wed Mar > 6 13:21:37 2019 > Wed Mar 6 13:21:37 2019 -> main.cld is up to date (version: 58, sigs: > 4566249, f-level: 60, builder: sigmgr) > Wed Mar 6 13:21:37 2019 -> Downloading daily-25378.cdiff [100%] > Wed Mar 6 13:21:37 2019 -> Downloading daily-25379.cdiff [100%] > Wed Mar 6 13:21:40 2019 -> Downloading daily-25380.cdiff [100%] > > The output stops at this point and the process eats 100% CPU. > > BR, > > Stanislav > >
