{"id":2,"date":"2008-08-10T06:30:34","date_gmt":"2008-08-10T06:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.50.22\/index.php\/2008\/08\/10\/clamwin-sig-updates-when-logged-off\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T21:24:48","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T01:24:48","slug":"clamwin-sig-updates-when-logged-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smegnl.medina.oh.us\/?p=2","title":{"rendered":"ClamWin Sig Updates when Logged Off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Now that we have ClamWin scanning while a user is logged off, I found out that the virus sigs do not update while logged off either. SOOO&#8230;. you have to make in c:\\program files\\clamwin\\bin&nbsp; a file called <strong>freshclam.conf<\/strong> and put this in it&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: book antiqua,palatino;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"># URL of server where database updates are to be downloaded from<br \/>\n# If this option is given multiple times, each will be tried in<br \/>\n# the order given until an update is successfully downloaded<br \/>\nDatabaseMirror your.webserver.ip<br \/>\nDatabaseMirror database.clamav.net<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: book antiqua,palatino;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"># Server used to compair sigs for whic is newer<br \/>\nDNSDatabaseInfo current.cvd.clamav.net<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: book antiqua,palatino;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"># where to put the new sigs<br \/>\nDatabaseDirectory C:\\Documents and Settings\\All Users\\.clamwin\\db<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: book antiqua,palatino;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">UpdateLogFile c:\\program files\\clamwin\\freshclam.log<br \/>\nLogFileMaxSize 1M<br \/>\nLogTime yes<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: book antiqua,palatino;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">#how many times to try before moving on to the next DatabaseMirror<br \/>\nMaxAttempts 5<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Then you get <strong>daily.cvd<\/strong> and <strong>main.cvd<\/strong> from clamwin and put them in the ROOT of your webserver.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">now we run freshclam.exe . This will get the updates from your webserver and put them on the machine. You could run this via the windows scheduler, or as we did, via a login script.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that we have ClamWin scanning while a user is logged off, I found out that the virus sigs do not update while logged off either. SOOO&#8230;. you have to make in c:\\program files\\clamwin\\bin&nbsp; a file called freshclam.conf and put this in it&#8230; # URL of server where database updates are to be downloaded from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3014,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-figured-it-out"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smegnl.medina.oh.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smegnl.medina.oh.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smegnl.medina.oh.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smegnl.medina.oh.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smegnl.medina.oh.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/smegnl.medina.oh.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smegnl.medina.oh.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smegnl.medina.oh.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smegnl.medina.oh.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smegnl.medina.oh.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}