Has anyone else noticed that the latest version of safebrowsing.cld (version 25090) was released way back on 2010-11-09?
>From skimming through the freshclam code, it would appear that ClamAV is using version 1.0 of the Google Safe Browsing API. But according to <http://code.google.com/apis/safebrowsing/developers_guide.html>: Notice: In early 2010, we made a new version of the Safe Browsing API available. This new version is designed to be more efficient in terms of bandwdith usage, and helps us scale this service to be able to support even more users. The new protocol is already in use by several browsers, including Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox. You can see the new protocol now, and start using it immediately. We will continue to support the existing protocol for a period while clients transition to the new protocol, but will eventually turn off the old version of the protocol. I have a suspicion that Google turned off version 1 of the protocol on 2010-11-09. Or at least, they stopped pushing updates for protocol version 1, which means that it's not just useless, it's worse than useless, because it will contain many false-positives... At any rate, if indeed Google turned off version 1 of the protocol, then safebrowsing support in ClamAV should be disabled ASAP (if it's not possible to quickly upgrade to version 2 of the protocol). _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://www.clamav.net/support/ml
