Folks,

I can run avscan* from a user terminal and scan a file, file(s) and directories. However I can not run the update function.

When I click on the GUI's update button I get the following error message: -
Needless to say, clicking yes doesn't help.

Any suggestions?

* as far as I can tell avscan is just a GUI front end for clamav and freshclam.


Steve-a-reno

Have you tried editing the menu icon to make it 'run as' root?

I have managed to fix the update error by logging in as root and changing the files permissions as follows: -

The tool now work fine for standard users.

Thanks,
Steve-a-reno

I just recently loaded a later freshclam package as a more recent version just became available through the repositories however I noticed that as a result it breaks the avscan update function. Of course I can easily fix it by manually reapplying the followign command Is there a reason that they project owners distribute the /usr/bin/freshclam file without the setuserid bit set and if so why dont they automatically apply the chmod command as part of the package update process (or is there a good security reason not to do this)?

Steve-a-reno