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Anti-Virus not Updating
Hello, My RN212 Antivirus will not update. Firmware: 6.10.5 Antivirus: Jul 09, 2020 I changed the DNS server to 8.8.8.8. and 8.8.4.4 I saw an earlier post where the problem ...
l8ton wrote:Which file(s) need to be deleted?
Solution:
1. ssh to ReadyNAS
> Username: root
> Password: YourAdminPassword
2. Navigate to the clamav directory.
> cd /var/lib/clamav
3. Rename daily.cld and mirrors.dat files
> mv daily.cld daily_2.cld
> mv mirrors.dat mirrors_2.dat
The virus definition wouldn't download if the original files were present
4. Run freshclam
> freshclam
5. Reboot ReadyNAS
6. Re-enable AV
Notes:
I don't know if this was necessary, but I disabled AV before before beginning the process.
Prior to renaming thefiles in step 3, running freshclam resulted in a "download failure" error, and suggested that there was an internet connection issue. This was not the case.
I got this warning after running freshclam, however there didn't seem to be a problem when I re-enabed AV:
WARNING: Clamd was NOT notified: Can't connect to clamd through /var/run/clamav/ clamd.ctl: No such file or directoryMany thanks to StephenB and a post from JohnCM_S for getttig me started on the right path
Which file(s) need to be deleted?
l8ton wrote:Which file(s) need to be deleted?
Solution:
1. ssh to ReadyNAS
> Username: root
> Password: YourAdminPassword
2. Navigate to the clamav directory.
> cd /var/lib/clamav
3. Rename daily.cld and mirrors.dat files
> mv daily.cld daily_2.cld
> mv mirrors.dat mirrors_2.dat
The virus definition wouldn't download if the original files were present
4. Run freshclam
> freshclam
5. Reboot ReadyNAS
6. Re-enable AV
Notes:
I don't know if this was necessary, but I disabled AV before before beginning the process.
Prior to renaming thefiles in step 3, running freshclam resulted in a "download failure" error, and suggested that there was an internet connection issue. This was not the case.
I got this warning after running freshclam, however there didn't seem to be a problem when I re-enabed AV:
WARNING: Clamd was NOT notified: Can't connect to clamd through /var/run/clamav/ clamd.ctl: No such file or directory
Many thanks to StephenB and a post from JohnCM_S for getttig me started on the right path
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