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FreshClam

The freshclam utility is the default database updater for Clam Antivirus. It works in two modes - from the command line and as a daemon. When started by the superuser it drops the priviledges, by default it works as clamav. freshclam downloads the database from the Clam Antivirus homepage and checks its consistency using MD5 sum. More information about the usage of this program you will find in freshclam(1) manual. FreshClam has a few disadvantages: it lacks proxy support and downloads the database from a hardcoded site only. If you need these features, please use oav-update.



Tomasz Kojm 2002-08-22