ERROR: CVD extraction failure

[Glenn Steen]

On 09/09/06, Wilson Kwok <leiw324 at yahoo.com.hk> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> When the MailScanner every start to Virus and Content Scanning that must
> ERROR: CVD extraction failure.
> How can I fix this problem ?
>
> Mail log:
> Sep  9 15:44:16 abc MailScanner[23616]: Virus and Content Scanning: Starting
> Sep  9 15:44:17 abc MailScanner[23616]: ERROR: CVD extraction failure
> Sep  9 15:44:17 abc MailScanner[23616]: Requeue: 61AFC7F3D.15CEE to
> 16D187EDF
> Sep  9 15:44:17 abc MailScanner[23616]: Uninfected: Delivered 1 messages
>
>
Does clamav work? "clamscan ...."? That error is from libclamav, so
... chances are that you have a broken cvd signature file somewhere.
Try running "freshclam -vv" or somesuch...
The error might also "selfheal", at the next run of update_virus_scanners ...

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