Thanks to all for your help. Michail, here is the output of your command:
[root@provue-server ~]# service clamd stop
Stopping clamd: [ OK ]
[root@provue-server ~]# cd /var/clamav
[root@provue-server clamav]# ls -laFt
total 86472
drwxr-xr-x 2 clamav clamav 4096 Mar 12 08:31 ./
-rw------- 1 clamav clamav 364 Mar 12 07:51 mirrors.dat
-rw-r--r-- 1 clamav clamav 57616896 Mar 12 07:50 daily.cld
-rw-r--r-- 1 clamav clamav 60125 Mar 11 07:45 bytecode.cvd
-rw-r--r-- 1 clamav clamav 30750647 Mar 11 07:41 main.cvd
drwxr-xr-x 25 root root 4096 Sep 2 2012 ../
[root@provue-server clamav]# rm -f /var/clamav/*
[root@provue-server clamav]# ls -laFt
total 8
drwxr-xr-x 2 clamav clamav 4096 Mar 12 08:31 ./
drwxr-xr-x 25 root root 4096 Sep 2 2012 ../
[root@provue-server clamav]# service clamd start
Starting clamd: [ OK ]
[root@provue-server clamav]# freshclam -v --no-dns
Current working dir is /var/clamav
Max retries == 6
ClamAV update process started at Tue Mar 12 08:31:11 2013
Using IPv6 aware code
Retrieving
http://db.us.clamav.net/main.cvdTrying to download
http://db.us.clamav.net/main.cvd (IP: 78.46.84.244)
Downloading main.cvd [100%]
Loading signatures from main.cvd
Properly loaded 1044387 signatures from new main.cvd
main.cvd updated (version: 54, sigs: 1044387, f-level: 60, builder: sven)
Querying main.54.67.1.0.78.46.84.244.ping.clamav.net
If-Modified-Since: Tue, 12 Mar 2013 13:40:38 GMT
Reading CVD header (daily.cvd): Connected to db.us.clamav.net (IP: 78.46.84.244).
Trying to retrieve CVD header of
http://db.us.clamav.net/daily.cvdOK (IMS)
daily.cvd is up to date (version: 16835, sigs: 933238, f-level: 63, builder: neo)
Querying daily.16835.67.1.0.78.46.84.244.ping.clamav.net
If-Modified-Since: Wed, 13 Feb 2013 15:29:15 GMT
Reading CVD header (bytecode.cvd): Connected to db.us.clamav.net (IP: 78.46.84.244).
Trying to retrieve CVD header of
http://db.us.clamav.net/bytecode.cvdOK (IMS)
bytecode.cvd is up to date (version: 214, sigs: 41, f-level: 63, builder: neo)
Querying bytecode.214.67.1.0.78.46.84.244.ping.clamav.net
Database updated (1977666 signatures) from db.us.clamav.net (IP: 78.46.84.244)
Clamd successfully notified about the update.
[root@provue-server clamav]# ls -laFt
total 52616
drwxr-xr-x 2 clamav clamav 4096 Mar 12 10:18 ./
-rw------- 1 clamav clamav 52 Mar 12 10:18 mirrors.dat
-rw-r--r-- 1 clamav clamav 30750647 Mar 12 10:18 main.cvd
-rw-r--r-- 1 clamav clamav 60125 Mar 12 08:58 bytecode.cvd
-rw-r--r-- 1 clamav clamav 22979110 Mar 12 08:58 daily.cvd
srw-rw-rw- 1 clamav clamav 0 Mar 12 08:56 clamd.socket=
drwxr-xr-x 25 root root 4096 Sep 2 2012 ../
TerryF: here is the output from your command after the above:
[root@provue-server clamav]# ls /var/clamav
bytecode.cvd clamd.socket daily.cvd main.cvd mirrors.dat
[root@provue-server clamav]#
My server is running in servergateway mode.
Thanks and I hope this helps.