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:

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:


My Virus database is up to date:


Question: Why could clamscan fail with the error message:

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

Thanks,

Bjoern

Below is some info from the Advanced section of ClamWin Help:

Running a Virus Scan from the Command Line
ClamWin can be run from the command line, from a batch file for instance. For a full list of parameters, navigate to the directory containing the executable files ("C:\Program Files\ClamWin\bin" on a default installation) and run

clamscan.exe --help

The database directory must be specified, using the --database=FILE/DIR parameter. In a default installation, the command to scan the entire C: drive would be:

clamscan.exe --database="C:\Program Files\ClamWin\db" --recursive C:\

Note the use of the --recursive parameter to ensure that sub-directories are scanned.

When run from the command line, a value will be returned, indicating whether or not a virus was detected. If no virus is found, the return value will be 0. If a virus is found, the return value is 1. Any other return value indicates an error

Hope this helps--I'm not a command line guy--used to be in DOS but that was a while ago.

Regards,

Hi,

thanks, the --database parameter pointing to the db-Directory, which freshclam fills with Virus definitions, makes clamscan also run outside of the bin-directory.

Regards,

Bjoern