I did not know that it was suicide. freshclam was giving me update failed messages. hence i upgraded clamav from version 0.92 to .93 after which my smtp started giving me error:452. Hence i disabled virus scanning for emails and the smtp worked. I decided to remove Clamav and install it again to see if this smtp error could be corrected. After going to software installer i selected manage packages individually and then removed 3 packages of clamav. just as i clicked remove i got a message" server has encountered an internal error" and that's the end of it. No server manager, no admin login only ssh access and root login was working, i tried to perform yum update but no result. i tried to update from sme 7.3 cd but no result. i booted with a centOS live cd to see if my partitions and data files were accessible but they too didn't appear, i have prepared a new installation of sme7.3 and got the server online without data-files, now the daunting task remains that how do i recover my data. any help? i hope my case would be helpful to a lot as not to commit suicide. and the how to recover data.