[Pkg-clamav-devel] Clamav in stable

[Stephen Gran]

This one time, at band camp, Bjoern Meier said:
> hi,
> I've installed a fresh Debian Etch to test clamav. Could it be, that
> there a two bugs?:

I think they are the same problem, see below.

> - freshclam seems to hang if you want to update the sigs
> - if you use postfix with amavis the email keeps in queue and
> clamav-scan hangs with 100% cpu usage.

The version of clamav in etch has a very hard time loading signatures of
a certain type that came into use after the release of etch.  freshclam
will try to load and validate the signtures, which is why it seems to
hang for a long time.  Also, I am guessing that you're using clamscan
with amavis (not clamdscan), which will suffer the same problem.

I highly recommend using the packages of clamav available from
http://volatile.debian.org/

Cheers,
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