Along with the release of ClamWin Free Antivirus 0.95.3 on 11 November 2009. The user of PCMAV 2.2a + ClamAV 0.95.2 can immediately upgrade the version of ClamAV engine to the version 0.95.3. Copy and paste library files from ClamWin Free Antivirus 0.95.3 to the folder #/plugins/clamav in your PCMAV folder. The library files ClamAV 0.95.3 can be downloaded here.

The latest version of Clamav Antivirus for Windows (ClamWin) 0.95.3 since 11 November 2009. Several improvements are:

• Improved virus signature handling
• Improved scanning speed of large executables
• Fixed detection of encrypted zip files embedded into other files
• Improved loading speed of compressed virus signature databases
• Other scanning enhancements

* on-access real-time scanner feature not active yet.

In a computer network, the average client uses the Windows operating system, mostly of them have an antivirus program on their computer for data security reason. We can imagine if there are 10 clients updating their antivirus programs at the same time, automatic Internet connection will be affected for this task. This usually happens because most users after installing these antivirus programs by default settings given, they rarely make changes to the program settings, especially when updating the antivirus.

That’s why to save the internet bandwidth; I try to make my own local antivirus update server. Because the existing server in my network is using Ubuntu Server operating system 9.04, so for simplicity I installing antivirus that could work and was supported by Ubuntu Server, it was ClamAV. To start configuring the server, at least we already have OpenSSH and LAMP server in it and ClamAV of course. With a slight change in our freshclam.conf script can change the number of times ClamAV update every day. For that we type the following command line:

# vi /etc/clamav/freshclam.conf

Find the following lines:

# Check for new database 24 times a day
Checks 24

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