Hello,

I use a Laptop, and when in transit I am often not online. When the scheduled time for update passes, I get a balloon popup telling me the update failed (for obvious reasons). I do not recall the exact text at the moment, but I will note it down next time it happens if that would be a help. Given that my definitions are seldom over a day or two old, and the risk of virus is significantly mitigated when offline, is there a way to set the balloon to only show if you haven't updated for a significant time (a day or two) to reduce the number of popups? I know it is not the highest priority, and may seem trivial, but it does get annoying.

TIA,
Adam

Yes that is a sensible option. In the meanwhile you can disable popups in the clamwin configuration

Hello again,

One related item I have noticed is that I have 'update Virus database on Log on' set. The main problem I have noticed is that my wireless card takes about 20 seconds to authenticate before I have net access.

This causes the following message:



Interestingly even though it says it waits 5 seconds, the timestamp seems to show these events all happening within a second. It would be much better if it waited until an IP address was aquired before attempting an update. Even a setting to say update x minutes after log on would solve this problem.

you may have a firewall blocking freshclam.exe, pls allow freshclam connections

No, this is happens even if the firewall is disabled. In any case, my firewall is configured
freshclam.exe -> Dest=[Any],Port=[Any],Protocol=[TCP/UDP Out],Permission=[Allow]
so this can not be the case. I can also manually run freshclam with success.

I believe this occurs because freshclam.exe is trying to run before the WLAN connection is ready. The message in the log states that it waits for 5 seconds twice (10 seconds in total), but the timestamps in the log indicate that all these events occur within a second.

can you try this?
open command prompt

the call nslookup
at the prompt enter
set querytype=txt
then
current.cvd.clamav.net

the output should be like


where "0.91.2:44:4376:1190615341:1" is the data freshclam needs

can you also try nslookup, then:
database.clamav.net

you should have something like:

where the alias is geolocalized db.it.clamav.net -> Italy

additional info in the freshclam code,
they added a workaround disabled by default, for an alcatel modem



or more simple when freshclam starts your network is not yet initialized, so you can update manually or don't use update at logon,
currently freshclam doesn't wait for the connection to came up and anyway an update at logon would never work
if the network is not ready