ClamAv: is anyone paying attention?

[Scott Kitterman]

On Wednesday 22 November 2006 18:20, Gabriel Dragffy wrote:
> This thread turned in to some huge rant about linux viruses, but the
> original question hasn't been resolved.
>
> I am in the process of setting up and perfecting a local fileserver
> (using Ubuntu, natch) and would like it to scan for viruses since it
> will be used by windows machines too.
>
> I installed clamav by doing:
> sudo aptitude install clamav clamav-freshclam -y
>
>
>
> Great, now when I run "sudo freshclam" I get the spiel about it being
> outdated here:
> $ sudo freshclam
> ClamAV update process started at Wed Nov 22 22:12:31 2006
> main.cvd is up to date (version: 41, sigs: 73809, f-level: 10, builder:
> tkojm)
> WARNING: Your ClamAV installation is OUTDATED!
> WARNING: Current functionality level = 8, recommended = 10
> DON'T PANIC! Read http://www.clamav.net/faq.html
> daily.cvd is up to date (version: 2230, sigs: 4567, f-level: 9, builder:

This means you have the latest signature files.

> arnaud)WARNING: Your ClamAV installation is OUTDATED!
> WARNING: Current functionality level = 8, recommended = 9
> DON'T PANIC! Read http://www.clamav.net/faq.html
>
>
> Now I don't really care if it's a little out of date, but if it would
> kindly download the latest sigs and do it's best I'd be more than happy.
> How can I progress from here?
>
> I do not want to use non-repos stuff if possible.
>
Freshclam logs to /var/log/clamav/freshclam.log.  Look there if you want to 
see if it's updating properly.

Scott K