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Clamtk used to work but suddenly for no reason it stopped working on Ubuntu16.04.3. When I click a folder to scan it just shows "0 files scanned" and zero threats even though I have many files in the folder. It used to work last couple week and it shows there are 23705 antivirus signatures installed already. I have been able to run freshclam by killing freshclam and then running it but still clamtk fails to scan any files.

An Othh-er
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    "Clamtk used to work" No it didn't :-P (well it might have some something cpu intensive but not catch virusses :D ) See /var/log/clamav/freshclam.log If anything is wrong it should be shown there (post the errors if you see one). – Rinzwind Aug 25 '17 at 14:31
  • I get this error: " Fri Aug 25 21:37:14 2017 -> Database updated (6308882 signatures) from db.local.clamav.net (IP: 27.96.54.66) Fri Aug 25 21:37:14 2017 -> ERROR: NotifyClamd: Can't find or parse configuration file /etc/clamav/clamd.conf" – An Othh-er Aug 25 '17 at 14:47
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    Good. Check that file on typing errors or add it to the question and we will find the problem. Did you perhaps edit this file? – Rinzwind Aug 25 '17 at 15:10

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I solved it using info from freshclam error, "clamd.conf" file not found

sudo apt install clamav-daemon

and then to complete the fix in ClamTK Settings > Update Assistant I had to set it to My computer automatically receives updates and then ClamTK began scanning files again normally.

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