Re: [SOLVED] need help with clamav

2011-05-29 Thread Juan R. de Silva
On Thu, 26 May 2011 18:01:11 +1000, M-L wrote: > On Thu, 26 May 2011 00:55:57 + (UTC) "Juan R. de Silva" > wrote: > >> Thanks Camaleón, you were the only one to reply. And this puzzles me >> BTW. I doubt people do not use clamav in Debian. Is there anything >> wrong with my posting. I'm new

Re: [SOLVED] need help with clamav

2011-05-26 Thread Mark Grieveson
On Thu, 26 May 2011 12:53:59 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > safer (admittedly, if I were to deactivate the root account and set > > up some sort of sudo thingy, as seems more common now, I might be > > safer -- > > So, you log into your GUI as root? No. I always log in as regular user. I use

Re: [SOLVED] need help with clamav

2011-05-26 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/26/2011 02:02 PM, Brian wrote: [snip] Broadly I agree with your sentiments. Now all that remains is to convince the other 100,000,000+ who run everything as root to adopt the same atitude. Antivirus software is for after the event. Failure has already taken place. Obligatory xkcd refere

Re: [SOLVED] need help with clamav

2011-05-26 Thread Brian
On Thu 26 May 2011 at 13:04:38 -0400, Mark Grieveson wrote: Apologies for picking this out and snipping your very useful technical response but . . . . > Others here have argued that it's not necessary to worry about viruses > and stuff when using Linux, but I still like to do it to feel a bit >

Re: [SOLVED] need help with clamav

2011-05-26 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/26/2011 12:04 PM, Mark Grieveson wrote: [snip] Others here have argued that it's not necessary to worry about viruses and stuff when using Linux, but I still like to do it to feel a bit safer (admittedly, if I were to deactivate the root account and set up some sort of sudo thingy, as seem

Re: [SOLVED] need help with clamav

2011-05-26 Thread Mark Grieveson
> > The posting was fine. I use clamav in Squeeze, but I have not had > > the same problems that you cited. It works fine for me; hence, I > > did not respond since I had no feedback to give. > > Thanks for the comment Mark. You're welcome. One problem I did have with clamav was when it was

Re: [SOLVED] need help with clamav

2011-05-26 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 26 May 2011 00:55:57 +, Juan R. de Silva wrote: > On Wed, 25 May 2011 11:08:36 +, Camaleón wrote: >> You can try to manually download the "bytecode.cvd" and then restart >> the clamd daemon. > > I've not tried it since, first, I have no idea would to do with the damn > thing afte

Re: [SOLVED] need help with clamav

2011-05-26 Thread M-L
On Thu, 26 May 2011 00:55:57 + (UTC) "Juan R. de Silva" wrote: > Thanks Camaleón, you were the only one to reply. And this puzzles me > BTW. I doubt people do not use clamav in Debian. Is there anything > wrong with my posting. I'm new to Debian community and willing to > learn. :-) Not cert

Re: [SOLVED] need help with clamav

2011-05-26 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 26/05/11 10:55, Juan R. de Silva wrote: > So, it looks to me like Squeeze clamav package has a bug. It either does > not configure clamav upon installation properly or simply missing some > file/s in package. Or you are the only one to encounter this problem. The total lack of people with

Re: [SOLVED] need help with clamav

2011-05-25 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/26/2011 12:28 AM, Juan R. de Silva wrote: On Wed, 25 May 2011 22:11:52 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 05/25/2011 07:55 PM, Juan R. de Silva wrote: [snip] Thanks Camaleón, you were the only one to reply. And this puzzles me BTW. I doubt people do not use clamav in Debian. Is there anything

Re: [SOLVED] need help with clamav

2011-05-25 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/25/2011 11:44 PM, Mark Grieveson wrote: On Wed, 25 May 2011 22:11:52 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: The main (only valid?) purpose of clamav is for mail server computers in Windows offices. I've found it useful for removing unwanted and/or broken applications (--detect-pua --detect-broken)

Re: [SOLVED] need help with clamav

2011-05-25 Thread Juan R. de Silva
On Wed, 25 May 2011 23:13:39 -0400, Mark Grieveson wrote: > The posting was fine. I use clamav in Squeeze, but I have not had the > same problems that you cited. It works fine for me; hence, I did not > respond since I had no feedback to give. Thanks for the comment Mark. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: [SOLVED] need help with clamav

2011-05-25 Thread Juan R. de Silva
On Wed, 25 May 2011 22:11:52 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 05/25/2011 07:55 PM, Juan R. de Silva wrote: [snip] >> >> Thanks Camaleón, you were the only one to reply. And this puzzles me >> BTW. I doubt people do not use clamav in Debian. Is there anything >> wrong with my posting. I'm new to Debi

Re: [SOLVED] need help with clamav

2011-05-25 Thread Mark Grieveson
On Wed, 25 May 2011 22:11:52 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > The main (only valid?) purpose of clamav is for mail server computers > in Windows offices. I've found it useful for removing unwanted and/or broken applications (--detect-pua --detect-broken) as well as viruses and spam. I had some er

Re: [SOLVED] need help with clamav

2011-05-25 Thread Mark Grieveson
> So, it looks to me like Squeeze clamav package has a bug. It either > does not configure clamav upon installation properly or simply > missing some file/s in package. > > Thanks Camaleón, you were the only one to reply. And this puzzles me > BTW. I doubt people do not use clamav in Debian. Is t

Re: [SOLVED] need help with clamav

2011-05-25 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/25/2011 07:55 PM, Juan R. de Silva wrote: [snip] Thanks Camaleón, you were the only one to reply. And this puzzles me BTW. I doubt people do not use clamav in Debian. Is there anything wrong with my posting. I'm new to Debian community and willing to learn. :-) The main (only valid?) pu

Re: [SOLVED] need help with clamav

2011-05-25 Thread Juan R. de Silva
On Wed, 25 May 2011 11:08:36 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Tue, 24 May 2011 22:42:57 +, Juan R. de Silva wrote: > >> I installed clamav on Sqeeze 64b bit seemingly without problems but >> then every time I run freshclam I have the following: >> >> username@desktop:~$ sudo freshclam >> [sudo] p