On 02/02/2011 22.53, James Ralston wrote: > On 2011-02-02 at 04:54+01 Gianluigi Tiesi <sher...@netfarm.it> wrote: >> clamav always says outdated if it's not the latest version > > Are you sure? > > Because in addition to the software version from DNS, the individual > databases have a functionality level (f-level). Perhaps I am > mistaken, but I thought that freshclam wouldn't necessarily claim to > be outdated unless at least one of the databases had an f-level > greater than what the installed version of ClamAV was known to > support... >
freshclam logic: if clamav version != dns version then clamav will warn it is outdated if clamav f-level < db f-level then clamav will warn it is outdated or library/tools version mismatch, depending if you get a new db or updated one regardless of warning you clamav will skip loading signatures with functionality level greater than compiled value when a new release is out, they may want to add to db new signatures that uses new flevel, so you may often get both messages Regards -- Gianluigi Tiesi <sher...@netfarm.it> EDP Project Leader Netfarm S.r.l. - http://www.netfarm.it/ Free Software: http://oss.netfarm.it/ _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://www.clamav.net/support/ml
