Security Apps Support

I just installed the latest version 0.96.2.1 and i still get the Error FFFF message when ever i try saving an update report.

It might have something to do with the fact that when ever i go into the preferences all the directories are blank unless i put the cursor in the blank space and move it around, then the directory appears.

Is there something wrong with the relative paths or something?

@JTH

I just updated from 96.1 to 96.2.1

I was happy to see that \Data\settings files were maintained
But
all the files in \Data\db were wiped out:
main.cvd
daily.cld
bytecode.cvd
mirrors.dat
during the update [and before the program was actually run].

Fortunately I had a copy of those files and restored them before running the program. Upon launch everything ran fine.

I THOUGHT you said after the last update, when there was a significant change in CW, that the installer would only do this if you were upgrading a version earlier than 96.1 or something like that.

After a failed DB definition update at work (probably corporate firewall related) I read the error message. At the end of the failed connection attempts I got to this

Giving up on database.clamav.net...
Update failed. Your network may be down or none of the mirrors listed in c:\users\\appdata\local\temp\tmpcbjuy5 is working. Check http://www.clamav.net/support/mirror-problem for possible reasons.

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Completed
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The contents of tmpcbjuy5 below

DNSDatabaseInfo current.cvd.clamav.net

Okay, strangeness abounds.

I installed the suite on my new USB HD, and just for fun thought I'd run CWP, updated the defs as it said since it was the first time running, then started scanning the USB drive, my McAfee picked up the temp files as a trojan, but I know the reason for that after looking through this forum (thanks for that answer)

But then I thought I'd scan the processes in memory... And CWP picked up itself, twice as a trojan, some generic one or other.

Hi, I just installed on my memory stick, and ran Clamwin. It asked to update the virus datatabse, however, the update failed.
Is there a specific way to update the portable ClamWin database? Here's the failure pasted below...
Regards,
Kevin

ClamAV update process started at Sun Aug 15 10:27:03 2010
WARNING: getfile: Unknown response from remote server (IP: 194.47.250.218)
WARNING: Can't download main.cvd from database.clamav.net
Trying again in 5 secs...
ClamAV update process started at Sun Aug 15 10:27:10 2010

Why not do the portable version of KeePass 2.0?

I am running ClamWinPortableDBUpdate.exe v0.3.3, and when I do I get the following error:

ERROR: Can't create temporary directory ..\ClamWinPortable\Data\db\clamav-e30037
134ddd96a09378e26e465f5b5a.000016d8.clamtmp
Hint: The database directory must be writable for UID 0 or GID 0

as far as I can tell, the directory is writable, and if I do a manual update from the ClamWin GUI itself, it works fine.

Can anyone provide any insight? I find the updater VERY useful, and would hate to go back to manually running updates if I don't absolutely have to.

I'm having a problem updating and would like to see if it's a "just me" situation or if anyone else is having a problem.

Does anyone know what this means

Hint: The database directory must be writable for UID 0 or GID 0

My problem seems to be with getting the incremental update, it fails and so has to download the full daily.cvd instead of patching it to become daily.cld, which means dowloading 2 MBs as opposed to a few KBs, or 6 minutes as opposed to a few seconds on a modem.

This has happened to me 4 times.

I just uploaded the ClamWin updated today and when I start the virus scan it reads:

ERROR: Malformed database

What can I do to get the program running again?

With a lot of apps getting out of date with the latest version
may mean only a feature or two missing or some bug fixed (or new
bug introduced.) Mostly not crucially important.

Seems that ClamWin should be up to date regardless if a new portable apps
format or launcher is ready.

Am I wrong to not want to rely on portable ClamWin?

It is so nice to have it on USB and go from computer to computer feeling fairly
sure I am scanning for virii with a clean device.