When I go to download them, I get this message: ClamAV update process started at Fri Jul 24 11:00:55 2009
nonblock_connect: giving up due to excessive bogus loops
Can't connect to port 80 of host database.clamav.net (IP: 127.0.0.1)
WARNING: Can't download main.cvd from database.clamav.net
Trying again in 5 secs...
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ClamWin: Problems Downloading updates from definition database
July 24, 2009 - 12:06pm
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ClamWin: Problems Downloading updates from definition database
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From what it looks like is the database download site is blocked. that site must be blocked with a software which modifies your hosts file to block certain addresses the IT doesn't want you to access. Also it may be a virus which is preventing you from getting the updates (for obvious reasons).
The IP of database.clamav.net should be 62.26.160.3 according to an IP trace I did. Yours is showing as 127.0.0.1. 127.0.0.1 is the computer you are on's IP. Is this your personal computer or a school/work/public computer?
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i would go to clamav and download the main.cvd
Links
http://db.local.clamav.net/main.cvd
http://db.local.clamav.net/daily.cvd
This right here is the best way to do it. From what I remember, the automatic update doesn't work well when it isn't blocked, but you can download those and put them in the appropriate directory. ClamWinPortable\app\ClamWin\bin IIRC, but do a Windows search on either CVD file and find where your existing ones are, then just download the new ones over the old.