ClamWin Free Antivirus :: View topic - Execution Problem using clamscan under Windows

Posted: Tue Jun 08, 2010 1:01 pm

Hello,

I wanted to test the clamscan command line utility and therefore installed the latest clamWin installation (0.96.1) on my machine. It's a windows XP.

My problem is the following:

Code:

C:\Programme\ClamWin>bin\clamscan.exe unins000.dat
LibClamAV Error: cl_load(): Can't get status of db
ERROR: Can't get file status
...

This happens in any other directory except C:\Programme\ClamWin\bin.

If I change directly into the bin-directory of the installation, it works, though:

Code:

C:\Programme\ClamWin\bin>clamscan.exe ClamWin.conf
C:\Programme\ClamWin\bin\ClamWin.conf: OK
...

My Virus database is up to date:

Code:

C:\Programme\ClamWin\bin>freshclam.exe
ClamAV update process started at Tue Jun 08 14:55:21 2010
Connecting via iproxy
main.cvd is up to date (version: 52, sigs: 704727, f-level: 44, builder: sven)
Connecting via iproxy
daily.cvd is up to date (version: 11157, sigs: 95433, f-level: 51, builder: ccordes)
Connecting via iproxy
bytecode.cvd is up to date (version: 25, sigs: 3, f-level: 51, builder: nervous)

Question: Why could clamscan fail with the error message:

Code:

LibClamAV Error: cl_load(): Can't get status of db
ERROR: Can't get file status

... unless started within the bin-directory of the ClamWin-installation?

Thanks,

Bj?¶rn