Re: [Security-Discuss] clamav, again!

Oden Eriksson wrote:
> Hi Vincent, All
> 
> It appears the clamav folks has started to force people to update their clamav 
> installations now. So, I guess we need to ship another clamav update. 
> 
> 
> # freshclam
> ClamAV update process started at Thu Jan 27 11:01:26 2005
> WARNING: Your ClamAV installation is OUTDATED - please update immediately!
> WARNING: Local version: 0.80 Recommended version: 0.81
> ERROR: Can't get information about database.clamav.net host.
> ERROR: Connection with ??? failed.
> 
> I guess the ERROR is a penalty for using 0.80! Specifying for example 
> "db.europe.clamav.net" instead of "database.clamav.net" for the 
> "DatabaseMirror" in /etc/freshclam.conf makes it work again. Is this 
> something that happens to you too?
> 

I have my DatabaseMirror set to database.clamav.net and had no error 
updating, only the warnings:

ClamAV update process started at Thu Jan 27 10:23:42 2005
WARNING: Your ClamAV installation is OUTDATED - please update immediately!
WARNING: Local version: 0.80 Recommended version: 0.81
Downloading main.cvd [*]
main.cvd updated (version: 29, sigs: 29086, f-level: 3, builder: tomek)
Downloading daily.cvd [*]
daily.cvd updated (version: 687, sigs: 752, f-level: 4, builder: ccordes)
WARNING: Your ClamAV installation is OUTDATED - please update immediately!
WARNING: Current functionality level = 3, required = 4
Database updated (29838 signatures) from database.clamav.net (193.19.98.136).
Clamd successfully notified about the update.



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