clamav and freshclam update failures

[ridenotwalk]

I'm not using LL at the moment so created a live USB using LL4.2UEFI as I know it works on this laptop I'm using right now. The steps below are using that so if you are using a different version of LL you may need to adjust accordingly.


From Menu, select My Computer then File System

Anywhere in the white space right click and select Open as administrator
You will likely be asked to enter your password. PLEASE NOTE, you are now working as root and ANYTHING you do from now will be done without LL asking you for permission as it thinks you know what you are doing so does it. You can harm your computer without careful consideration of what you are doing so please if you are not comfortable with what you are about to do, don't do it and close the pane/window

Anywhere is the white space right click and select Search here

The search pane will open, search for freshclam.conf

Once the search has finished (it might find several directories/files) open the file as normal.

Find the ConnectTimeout and RecieveTimeout entries and change them to 300 (300 seconds). Default is 30 IIRC

Click save

Close each pane/window as you normally would until you are back to the desktop.

Open Terminal and

Code:

sudo freshclam

If you get the errors

Code:

sudo rm /var/log/clamav/freshclam.log

You can do

Code:

sudo rm -rf /var/log/clamav/freshclam.log

if you like, I just prefer not to as the -rf scares me a bit right now till I learn more

Code:

sudo freashclam

again and it should update as normal.