Clamav out of date

[Brian Fahrlander]

David Koski wrote:
> On Tuesday 09 October 2007 13:20, Mario Vukelic wrote:
>> On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 21:05 +0100, Sean Rima wrote:
>>> how can I update the
>>> program?
>> You will likely want to enable the backports repository, it has updates:
>> Dapper:
>> http://packages.ubuntu.com/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl?keywords=clamav&searc
>> hon=names&subword=1&version=dapper-backports&release=all
>>
>> Feisty:
>> http://packages.ubuntu.com/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl?keywords=clamav&searc
>> hon=names&subword=1&version=feisty-backports&release=all
> 
> I have never seen clamav anywhere near up to date for Ubuntu.  From the 
> dapper-backports I get:
> 
> 
> # clamscan -V
> ClamAV 0.88.7/4521/Wed Oct 10 00:58:01 2007
> 
> # freshclam -v
> Current working dir is /var/lib/clamav/
> Max retries == 5
> ClamAV update process started at Wed Oct 10 08:15:22 2007
> Querying current.cvd.clamav.net
> TTL: 282
> Software version from DNS: 0.91.2
> WARNING: Your ClamAV installation is OUTDATED!
> WARNING: Local version: 0.88.7 Recommended version: 0.91.2
> DON'T PANIC! Read http://www.clamav.net/faq.html
> main.cvd version from DNS: 44
> main.cvd is up to date (version: 44, sigs: 133163, f-level: 20, builder: sven)
> WARNING: Your ClamAV installation is OUTDATED!
> WARNING: Current functionality level = 10, recommended = 20
> DON'T PANIC! Read http://www.clamav.net/faq.html
> daily.cvd version from DNS: 4521
> daily.cvd is up to date (version: 4521, sigs: 25878, f-level: 21, builder: 
> ccordes)
> WARNING: Your ClamAV installation is OUTDATED!
> WARNING: Current functionality level = 10, recommended = 21
> DON'T PANIC! Read http://www.clamav.net/faq.html
> Freeing option list...done
> 
> With Debian volatile I get:
> 
> # clamscan -V
> ClamAV 0.91.2/4521/Wed Oct 10 00:58:01 2007
> 
> # freshclam -v
> Current working dir is /var/lib/clamav/
> Max retries == 5
> ClamAV update process started at Wed Oct 10 08:15:55 2007
> Querying current.cvd.clamav.net
> TTL: 296
> Software version from DNS: 0.91.2
> main.cvd version from DNS: 44
> main.inc is up to date (version: 44, sigs: 133163, f-level: 20, builder: sven)
> daily.cvd version from DNS: 4521
> daily.inc is up to date (version: 4521, sigs: 25878, f-level: 21, builder: 
> ccordes)
> 
> For this reason I am sorry I installed Ubuntu instead of Debian and would not 
> recommend Ubuntu for mail servers.  The Debian volatile repository is not 
> compatible with Ubuntu/clamav due to dependency issues.

     Yeah, I have several of these units in the field; I cringe when the 
clients see it, so far behind. (Epecially when the one Fedora box I have 
left....FC4, fer cryin' out loud, is more up to date.)

     But it'll improve; these things take time.

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