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colin

12-11-2017, 02:35 PM
Hi all
I'm running Linux Lite 3.6 and i decided to install Clamav as shown in the manual. But when i tried to update clamav i got this: 

Code:
colin@Linux-Lite4me:~$ sudo freshclam
[sudo] password for colin:
ClamAV update process started at Mon Dec 11 14:26:23 2017
main.cvd is up to date (version: 58, sigs: 4566249, f-level: 60, builder: sigmgr)
daily.cld is up to date (version: 24119, sigs: 1801440, f-level: 63, builder: neo)
bytecode.cld is up to date (version: 319, sigs: 75, f-level: 63, builder: neo)
colin@Linux-Lite4me:~$

When i tried to run clamav i got a very long list similar to the following:

Code:
LibClamAV Warning: fmap_readpage: pread fail: asked for 4077 bytes @ offset 19, got 0
LibClamAV Warning: fmap_readpage: pread fail: asked for 4077 bytes @ offset 19, got 0
LibClamAV Warning: fmap_readpage: pread fail: asked for 4077 bytes @ offset 19, got 0
LibClamAV Warning: fmap_readpage: pread fail: asked for 4094 bytes @ offset 2, got 0
LibClamAV Warning: fmap_readpage: pread fail: asked for 4094 bytes @ offset 2, got 0

Is this normal?

elelme

12-13-2017, 06:50 PM
Colin,
Did you ever get this working?
I always used the GUI for this and so never saw this response.

colin

01-03-2018, 11:47 AM
Hello elelme
No i didn't, so i give up in the end.

newtusmaximus

01-03-2018, 05:02 PM
Might I suggest SOPHOS as an alternative.  Needs patience to install  but thereafter trouble free.  Note: by running in the background it does use system resources; The trade off.  https://www.sophos.com/en-us/medialibrar..._sgeng.pdf  Section 5, Page 9 details setting up Sophos on a stand alone computer.

I have been using it to try and prevent passing on  inadvertent "threats" to other colleagues when carrying out collaborative projects.

elelme

01-08-2018, 04:06 PM
Newtusmaximus,
  Didn't someone say here that SOPHOS had a security problem?
  (Note: Went back to your earlier posts and saw you only had problems with a false-positive,
      so maybe I misunderstood. My apologies for this old old brain mis-firing!)
 

Colin,
  Clam is the only thing I ever had success with.  Used it in Windows, even, back in the old days when
I used Windows.
 

newtusmaximus

01-08-2018, 07:23 PM
elelme.  Re Sophos
Yes you are correct - Your memory is excellent.  I raised a query regarding a "positive" report.  It  had identified  a small part of Lite.info as a FALSE positive.  However if that sector was not subsequently "sanitised" it did not effect the rest of LL's operation.  If it were to be sanistised, the system report to the hardware database would not function.
Security & Bug Fixes /  Re: SECURITY SOPHOS - reported infection - False positive?? « on: April 11, 2017, 04:34:00 PM »

bitsnpcs

01-09-2018, 01:03 AM
(01-03-2018, 11:47 AM)colin link Wrote: [ -> ]Hello elelme
No i didn't, so i give up in the end.

https://askubuntu.com/questions/591964/c...file-error

https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1533447
Links offers this solution -

Code:
sudo clamscan -ir --exclude-dir=^/sys --exclude-dir=^/dev --exclude-dir=^/proc
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