RE: [vps-mail] ClamAV Questions

["John Oligario" <joligario@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You should download and install 0.84, can be done via the ports, etc.  I
recommend doing this ASAP.  I upgraded mine yesterday. 

-----Original Message-----
From: Matt Cohen [mailto:lists@xxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Monday, May 02, 2005 4:48 PM
To: vps-mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [vps-mail] ClamAV Questions

I've been pretty proud of ClamAV and what its been catching, which so far
has been everything.

Until today - actually I think it started last night but there's a new Virus
going around (news to me) that uses ZIP files and has been getting thru
ClamAV as clean.

It was still getting through this morning so I thought i'd run freshclam to
make sure the virus DB was being updated.  Here's what I
got:

# /usr/local/bin/freshclam
ClamAV update process started at Mon May  2 13:37:43 2005 Reading CVD header
(main.cvd): OK main.cvd is up to date (version: 31, sigs: 33079, f-level: 4,
builder: tkojm)
WARNING: Your ClamAV installation is OUTDATED - please update immediately !
WARNING: Current functionality level = 2, required = 4 Reading CVD header
(daily.cvd): OK daily.cvd is up to date (version: 863, sigs: 973, f-level:
4, builder: diego)
WARNING: Your ClamAV installation is OUTDATED - please update immediately !
WARNING: Current functionality level = 2, required = 4

This got me a little concerned, so I did a vinstall of ClamAv. Aside from
the odd message about unlinking my 'personal copy' of Clamav and using the
system copy, that seemed to go fine.  (I picked the 'clamd' 
& 'clamdscan' option, and thank you to Scott or whomever is responsible for
the vinstall for the great explanation of why I would want one or the other)

Then tried it again and got this:

# /usr/local/bin/freshclam
ClamAV update process started at Mon May  2 13:46:37 2005
WARNING: Your ClamAV installation is OUTDATED - please update immediately!
WARNING: Local version: 0.83 Recommended version: 0.84 main.cvd is up to
date (version: 31, sigs: 33079, f-level: 4, builder: tkojm) daily.cvd is up
to date (version: 863, sigs: 973, f-level: 4, builder: diego)

While this error message seems less scary, i'm still a little concerned -
should I be?

Thanks,
Matt
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