As shown in the picture above, I am able to select the scan scheduler by choosing the minutes and clicking on the bottom right + icon. However for Antivirus signatures, there is no + icon. How can I set a time to update the antivirus signatures?
I get this when I want to update virus data:
ERROR: Can’t open /var/log/clamav/freshclam.log in append mode (check permissions!).
ERROR: Problem with internal logger (UpdateLogFile = /var/log/clamav/freshclam.log).
ERROR: initialize: libfreshclam init failed.
ERROR: Initialization error!
Any advice to solve this?
I did download ClamAv datebase and I want to offline update the signature database, as far as I surfed I could not find a solution and also in ClamTK, ClamAVs GUI there is no option for the offline update, I am using the latest update of Ubuntu.
Thank you in advance for helping me.
After installing Ubuntu 18.04 to its own drive on a dual booting high performance system (also Windows 10), I attempted to use Clamtk (home page) to scan drives. The result was an instant report of nothing found. Clamav and Clamtk were installed from the Ubuntu repository
I then attempted virus signatures update and saw there were no virus definitions installed. The download proceeded normally but there were still no virus signatures.
I then uninstalled Clamtk and used terminal to initiate a download using Freshclam. The download appeared to proceed normally but when it finished it was not installed. Freshclam then kept initiating further downloads with the same result until it timed out. I used terminal commands to run freshclam (sudo /etc/init.d/clamav-freshclam stop then sudo freshclam -v)
I then uninstalled and then reinstalled Clamav (home page) and tried again with the same result. I used synaptic package manager for the uninstall and reinstall.
I then established where the virus signatures come from and was able to download daily.cvd to my downloads folder successfully, but have no idea where to move it and main.cvd to.
Any ideas as to the problem and solution, please?
I recently encrypted my home directory and since then I have realized Clam AV is not really scanning the file in my home directory. It is scanning the encrypted files. I am running the scan with the user who's home is encrypted (using ecryptfs-migrate-home).
How can I recursively scan my encrypted home directory now using ClamTK or freshclam?