On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 05:11:32PM -0700, Mark wrote:
In that situation it's nice to have an alternative way to get updated virus defs. I can use, for example, a CD-RW, or floppies, or Zip, or USB hard drive, etc. I'll have to check how to do that with Clam. I hope GRML can somehow retain them in RAM.
As mentioned in the freshclam manpage, you can choose where to store the virus-database.
freshclam(1): # --datadir=DIRECTORY Install new database in DIRECTORY. The # directory must be writeable for the 'clamav' user or unprivileged # user running freshclam.
It should be trivial to run the command on another system, store the database on a portable storage device and restore it on the infected machine (the default directory - where you want to put the database in - is mentioned in freshclam.conf(5), directive: 'DatabaseDirectory'). Unfortunately, I don't have a grml system by my side, so I can only guess that it works like that.
Further, mika wrote[1] about 'removing' the infected files in his weblog.
HTH -fl