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Can I delete these clamav files?

  • 14-06-2007 09:41AM
    #1
    workaccount
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,460 ✭✭✭


    There taking up loads of space and I need to delete them.

    They must be definitions but they take up about 12G.

    This is an example of one clamav-96e6b74536b8ec96.

    I'm SSH'ed into the machine at the moment. Can I just delete all these and update clamAV from the command line?


Comments

  • #2
    humbert
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,238 ✭✭✭humbert


    I don't know what they are but I'd be amazed if virus definitions are 12G, they are downloaded from the internet and are usually quite small. I'm no expert but if I saw a clam file taking up that much space I'd delete it as clam isn't that hard to reinstall anyway.


  • #3
    workaccount
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,460 ✭✭✭workaccount


    Yeah I just deleted the damn things. Definiton files for Linux couldn't take up 12G on second thoughts seeing as theres not a hell of alot of virus'.

    My machine is back up and running now anyway albeit probably without anti virus at the moment.


  • #4
    humbert
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,238 ✭✭✭humbert


    when you install it first and update it it's quite a small download and one would presume it has the full compliment of virus definition files so whatever that file is I think it must be superfluous.


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