ClamWin Portable 0.96.4 Released

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Submitted by John T. Haller on November 19, 2010 - 11:14am

logoClamWin Portable 0.96.4 has been released. ClamWin Portable is the popular ClamWin antivirus packaged as a portable app, so you can take your antivirus with you to scan files on the go. This release updates ClamWin to the latest version. It's packaged in PortableApps.com Format for easy use from any portable device and integration with the PortableApps.com Suite. And it's open source and completely free.

Read on for more details...

PortableApps.com Platform 2.0 Beta 5 users who already have this app installed, simply click 'Check for Updates' in your PA.c Menu to update to the new version.

Features

ClamWin Portable ScreenshotClamWin is a Free Antivirus for Microsoft Windows. It provides a graphical user interface to the Clam AntiVirus engine. It features:

  • High detection rates for viruses and spyware
  • Regular virus database updates. ClamAV team regularly updates virus databases to include a new virus/variant immediately after it appears
  • Standalone Virus Scanner

Learn more about ClamWin...

New In This Release

This release updates ClamWin to the latest version.

PortableApps.com Installer / PortableApps.com Format

ClamWin Portable is packaged in a PortableApps.com Installer so it will automatically detect an existing PortableApps.com installation when your drive is plugged in. And it's in PortableApps.com Format, so it automatically works with the PortableApps.com Suite including the Menu and Backup Utility.

Download

ClamWin Portable is available for immediate download from the ClamWin Portable homepage. Get it today!

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Comments

PortAppsLover73

November 26, 2010 - 8:36am

Installs fine, but when you go to update virus definitions.. it just hangs indefinately. 10.. 20.. 30 minutes go by with no action.

If you hit the CLOSE button.. it yields a error and aborts.

Something is definately wrong in this version....

Moonbase

November 26, 2010 - 9:54am

Odd … Just gave it a try to verify, but it works well here (as did the previous versions). (Windows/XP+SP3 German, Admin rights.) It still has the old bug of the "vanishing" log text, though: The text in the log window "disappears" when ClamWin has completed its upgrades. Just move the slider at the right, and voilà, the text is back.

Here’s the log:

ClamAV update process started at Fri Nov 26 15:44:57 2010
main.cld is up to date (version: 53, sigs: 846214, f-level: 53, builder: sven)
Downloading daily-12291.cdiff [100%]
Downloading daily-12292.cdiff [100%]
Downloading daily-12293.cdiff [100%]
Downloading daily-12294.cdiff [100%]
Downloading daily-12295.cdiff [100%]
Downloading daily-12296.cdiff [100%]
Downloading daily-12297.cdiff [100%]
Downloading daily-12298.cdiff [100%]
Downloading daily-12299.cdiff [100%]
Downloading daily-12300.cdiff [100%]
Downloading daily-12301.cdiff [100%]
Downloading daily-12302.cdiff [100%]
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Downloading daily-12305.cdiff [100%]
Downloading daily-12306.cdiff [100%]
Downloading daily-12307.cdiff [100%]
Downloading daily-12308.cdiff [100%]
Downloading daily-12309.cdiff [100%]
Downloading daily-12310.cdiff [100%]
Downloading daily-12311.cdiff [100%]
Downloading daily-12312.cdiff [100%]
Downloading daily-12313.cdiff [100%]
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Downloading daily-12317.cdiff [100%]
Downloading daily-12318.cdiff [100%]
Downloading daily-12319.cdiff [100%]
Downloading daily-12320.cdiff [100%]
Downloading daily-12321.cdiff [100%]
daily.cld updated (version: 12321, sigs: 6694, f-level: 54, builder: guitar)
Downloading bytecode-92.cdiff [100%]
Downloading bytecode-93.cdiff [100%]
bytecode.cld updated (version: 93, sigs: 16, f-level: 54, builder: edwin)
Database updated (852924 signatures) from database.clamav.net (IP: 155.98.64.87)

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Completed
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Maybe it’s some kind of internet access problem on the machine you tried it on (firewall, router, whatever)? I seem to remember it used to behave erratically when unable to access the update files.

PortAppsLover73

November 30, 2010 - 11:08am

Ok, finally got it to work....

I had some temp files in the data/db directory that were corrupt.

I deleted all the data out of the DB directory.. and restarted.. this allowed me to redownload the main and daily def files from scratch.. resolving my issue.