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abeckstrom
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ClamWin Portable 0.90 Doesn't Scan Anything

Just upgraded to the latest Portable Apps ClamWin 0.90 and whenever I try to run a scan I get the same error: "Error: MD5 verification error". No files or folders are scanned. Please advise.

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Sorry,

but, I am not as qualified as John or many others to answer this, but I think that you should try downloading it again and then update the virus definitions (if you did not update the definitions before, then that should fix your problem).

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It works... but slowly

Take ages for gettin a scanning but it works believe me

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ClamWin Portable does not scan even my Pen Drive

Sir,
I have downloaded ClamWin. But it does not scan even a single file. I also downloaded the latest virus data.
Is there any other way out?
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Mahesh Kamdar

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Can you give

more info on your error?
like text or screenshot of the error wondow?
Otherwise its pretty hard to find out anything that might help.
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Try this

Delete the Clamwin Portable folder and installer, download ClamWin Portable from this site again (John updated it yesterday), install it again, download the updates and try the scan.

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Sorry for resurrecting this old thread...

but I am experiencing similar problem. Below is an example of the report when I try to scan:

Scan Started Tue Feb 12 17:57:50 2008
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ERROR: MD5 verification error

----------- SCAN SUMMARY -----------
Known viruses: 0
Engine version: 0.92
Scanned directories: 0
Scanned files: 0
Skipped non-executable files: 0
Infected files: 0

Data scanned: 0.00 MB
Time: 1.933 sec (0 m 1 s)
--------------------------------------
Completed
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I'm using the latest version of ClamWin Portable, downloaded from this site. Any ideas what is wrong?

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Simple answer ...

Known viruses:0
shows You, that the Databases main.cvd and/or daily.cvd in the Data/db folder are empty.

Try dowloading the actual dbs via 'Tools-Download Virus Database Update'.

Keep in mind that You have to allow Clamwin to connect the internet if You have a firewall enabled Smile

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Strange...

I am pretty sure I did just that, and the update process was a success. Anyway, will try to re-download and re-install the whole thing (installer + virus database) later... or perhaps I'll just stick to the virus-free, linux environment Smile

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Reset

You can also easily reset ClamWin Portable by deleting the ClamWinPortable\Data directory.

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Re-installing the whole

Re-installing the whole thing seems to solve the problem. Many thanks! Smile

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