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Mar 3 16:05:30 hosting15 MailScanner[2725]: Virus and Content Scanning: Starting
Mar 3 16:05:30 hosting15 MailScanner[19933]: ERROR:: COULD NOT CONNECT TO CLAMD, RECOMMEND RESTARTING DAEMON
Mar 3 16:05:30 hosting15 MailScanner[2725]: Clamd::ERROR:: COULD NOT CONNECT TO CLAMD, RECOMMEND RESTARTING DAEMON :: .

Hi am getting this error in the Tail maillog

How can I resolve this?

Did you try as suggested in the error, i.e. restarting the clamd daemon?

I am getting this error also. I have tried restarting clamd and it states it restarts but it does not continue running it appears. I have run a forced update via MS frontend of both mailscanner and clam.

Yep found the cause of this for me. A bad clamav update. The clamav DB was corrupt. I had to delete the clam daily and main DB's and run freshclam. Then restart clamd service.