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When I was running freshclam using ClamAV on Zorin Linux OS, it gave me the following errors as shown below. I am new to Linux, so I might need some hand-holding on solving this (step-by-step), if possible. I searched other websites with the same question, but it did not resolve my issue. Thank you!

mechalinuxzilla@zorin-vb:~$ sudo freshclam Thu Jul 30 15:06:37 2020 -> ClamAV update process started at Thu Jul 30 15:06:37 2020 Thu Jul 30 15:06:37 2020 -> daily database available for download (remote version: 25889) Time: 11.1s, ETA: 0.0s [=============================>] 92.69MiB/92.69MiB Thu Jul 30 15:06:48 2020 -> !getcvd: Verification: Can't verify database integrity Thu Jul 30 15:06:48 2020 -> Trying again in 5 secs... Thu Jul 30 15:06:53 2020 -> daily database available for download (remote version: 25889) Time: 10.2s, ETA: 0.0s [=============================>] 92.69MiB/92.69MiB Thu Jul 30 15:07:03 2020 -> !getcvd: Verification: Can't verify database integrity Thu Jul 30 15:07:03 2020 -> Trying again in 5 secs... Thu Jul 30 15:07:08 2020 -> daily database available for download (remote version: 25889) Time: 12.8s, ETA: 0.0s [=============================>] 92.69MiB/92.69MiB Thu Jul 30 15:07:21 2020 -> !getcvd: Verification: Can't verify database integrity Thu Jul 30 15:07:21 2020 -> Giving up on https://database.clamav.net... Thu Jul 30 15:07:21 2020 -> !Update failed for database: daily Thu Jul 30 15:07:21 2020 -> ^fc_update_databases: fc_update_database failed: Invalid or corrupted CVD/CLD database (7) Thu Jul 30 15:07:21 2020 -> !Database update process failed: Invalid or corrupted CVD/CLD database (7) Thu Jul 30 15:07:21 2020 -> !Update failed.
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  • Read this thread and it should get you sorted. It's older and untested by me - but I am pretty sure it's the same issue. Commented Jul 31, 2020 at 0:46
  • Thanks, KGIII, I appreciate the link. I tried everything mentioned in the article, but I keep getting the "!getcvd: Verification: Can't verify database integrity" error message. Commented Jul 31, 2020 at 20:56

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After doing quite a bit of research on this, it appears downloading the main.cvd and daily.cvd files manually from clamav.net and doing the freshclam did the trick. I am not getting the error anymore. Here is what I did:

mechalinuxzilla@zorin-vb:~$ sudo wget http://database.clamav.net/main.cvd 2020-07-31 14:01:50-- http://database.clamav.net/main.cvd Resolving database.clamav.net (database.clamav.net)... 104.16.219.84, 104.16.218.84, 2606:4700::6810:da54, ... Connecting to database.clamav.net (database.clamav.net)|104.16.219.84|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 117859675 (112M) [application/octet-stream] Saving to: ‘main.cvd’ main.cvd 100%[=======================>] 112.40M 10.1MB/s in 13s 2020-07-31 14:02:03 (8.73 MB/s) - ‘main.cvd’ saved [117859675/117859675] mechalinuxzilla@zorin-vb:~$ sudo wget http://database.clamav.net/daily.cvd 2020-07-31 14:02:38-- http://database.clamav.net/daily.cvd Resolving database.clamav.net (database.clamav.net)... 104.16.218.84, 104.16.219.84, 2606:4700::6810:da54, ... Connecting to database.clamav.net (database.clamav.net)|104.16.218.84|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 97507181 (93M) [application/octet-stream] Saving to: ‘daily.cvd’ daily.cvd 100%[=======================>] 92.99M 9.17MB/s in 11s 2020-07-31 14:02:49 (8.47 MB/s) - ‘daily.cvd’ saved [97507181/97507181] mechalinuxzilla@zorin-vb:~$ sudo freshclam Fri Jul 31 14:02:55 2020 -> ClamAV update process started at Fri Jul 31 14:02:55 2020 Fri Jul 31 14:02:55 2020 -> daily.cvd database is up to date (version: 25890, sigs: 3729086, f-level: 63, builder: raynman) Fri Jul 31 14:02:55 2020 -> main.cvd database is up to date (version: 59, sigs: 4564902, f-level: 60, builder: sigmgr) Fri Jul 31 14:02:55 2020 -> bytecode database available for download (remote version: 331) Time: 0.1s, ETA: 0.0s [=============================>] 289.44KiB/289.44KiB Fri Jul 31 14:02:55 2020 -> Testing database: '/var/lib/clamav/tmp.a3a04/clamav-7bed49e12b32dadbc775f183c02205c5.tmp-bytecode.cvd' ... Fri Jul 31 14:02:55 2020 -> Database test passed. Fri Jul 31 14:02:55 2020 -> bytecode.cvd updated (version: 331, sigs: 94, f-level: 63, builder: anvilleg)
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