> I'm thinking there that the above line is the problem "memory pool", > in that not enough memory can me allocated to load all the signatures and > so, as only "part" of the signature is loaded... it's then described as > malformed :( Steve.... may that be related to the issue I had with "reloading" signatures and/or generating "statistics" (I wrote you some time ago about it) ? In my case I was running ClamD on win32 and replacing the ClamD version from oss.it with the one from ath.cx solved the issue... sure, in this case things may be different, but ...