Re: [Security-Discuss] clamav updates in updates?

Vincent Danen said:
>
> On Jun 2, 2004, at 3:11 AM, Simon Oosthoek wrote:
>
>> I just noticed that my clamav on mdk 10.0 is v0.67 and it complained
>> that it
>> was outdated and should be upgraded immediately. Now I can download
>> v0.71
>> from clamav.net and do it myself, but I'd be more happy with an
>> official
>> mandrake update. For this kind of software, an upgrade is also a
>> security
>> fix IMHO, so I hope mandrake agrees with me on this ;-)
>
> Nice try, but no.
>
> *If* it was in main, it would need to have a security flaw or hole to
> be updated.  Just because it thinks it's out of date doesn't make
> updating it a security fix.
>
> clamav is in contribs, and contribs are unsupported, so they never get
> updates.
>
> Guess you get to roll your own.  =)
>

Or just grab the mandrake rpm listed in the downloads section of the clamAV site:
http://www.clamav.net/binary.html#pagestart

-T.J.

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