[Pkg-clamav-devel] [volatile] Updated clamav-related packages available for testing

[Török Edwin]

On 2010-04-15 22:49, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-04-15 at 20:58 +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
>> On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 10:35:41PM +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
>>>
>>> The clamav project have announced that they will be publishing a
>>> specially formed virus signature which disables older versions of the
>>> software, including the version in lenny.  If you have not yet migrated
>>> to using the volatile packages, now would be a good time to do so. :-)
>>
>> What does this mean exactly?  Will it now tell that everything is
>> not a virus, even for things that it used to be able to detect?
>
> That doesn't seem particularly easy to determine from the announcements
> provided by upstream, unless I'm looking in the wrong places; the
> wording I used was very much based on their EOL announcement.

Run freshclam and you'll see.
clamd 0.94.2 says:
LibClamAV Warning: 
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LibClamAV Warning: ***  This version of the ClamAV engine is outdated. 
    ***
LibClamAV Warning: *** DON'T PANIC! Read 
http://www.clamav.net/support/faq ***
LibClamAV Warning: 
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LibClamAV Error: cli_hex2str(): Malformed hexstring: This ClamAV version 
has reached End of Life! Please upgrade to version 0.95 or later. For 
more information see  www.clamav.net/eol-clamav-094 and 
www.clamav.net/download (length: 169)
LibClamAV Error: Problem parsing database at line 742

Best regards,
--Edwin