On Thu, 5 Aug 2004, Ryan Moore wrote: > Over the past few days I've had a few reports of a virus getting > through, and while the sig database has that virus listed (sigtool -l), > I don't see any blocks in my messages log. I'm still running a slightly > older version of clamav on most my boxes (0.72) since there were some > issues with the newer versions over the past few weeks, though I'm > thinking they may have been resolved?
Versions older than 0.75 will not catch all variants of Mydoom.M. Version 0.75.1 was released to resolve the stability issues, and seems to be working well for me. > My main question is, that with some of these new signatures that have > been released, do they need an upgrade of the scanning engine > (libclamav?) itself? I'm guessing the answer is yes, and also wondering > if there is a way to include automated notification when freshclam runs > perhaps. Such that if freshclam downloads a signature and if the > signature has a 'engine version requirement' or some attribute that can > be compared against the installed engine, if the installed engine isn't > newer, give a nasty warning in the log. That's a good idea. Not sure how they would add support for that, though, without having the version numbers change _very_ frequently. Not that having them change is a bad thing.... > Not sure if this has been discussed before, if so I appologize as I must > have missed the thread. It should probably be a FAQ. Damian Menscher -- -=#| Physics Grad Student & SysAdmin @ U Illinois Urbana-Champaign |#=- -=#| 488 LLP, 1110 W. Green St, Urbana, IL 61801 Ofc:(217)333-0038 |#=- -=#| 4602 Beckman, VMIL/MS, Imaging Technology Group:(217)244-3074 |#=- -=#| <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www.uiuc.edu/~menscher/ Fax:(217)333-9819 |#=- -=#| The above opinions are not necessarily those of my employers. |#=- ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by OSTG. Have you noticed the changes on Linux.com, ITManagersJournal and NewsForge in the past few weeks? Now, one more big change to announce. We are now OSTG- Open Source Technology Group. Come see the changes on the new OSTG site. www.ostg.com _______________________________________________ Clamav-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/clamav-users
