On 2011 Feb 11, at 17:56 , Vincent Fox wrote: > On 2/11/2011 8:31 AM, Jan-Pieter Cornet wrote: >> On the other hand, since you haven't updated ClamAV in over a year, leading >> to (significantly) decreased detection, maybe the scanning of email isn't >> top priority, and your mail scanning engine needs to fallback to letting >> mail through on scan errors. >> > Forgive me for this but.... > > 3-4 days after v0.97 is released, v0.95 is considered obsolete and > no longer worth testing databases for.
Yes, that sucks. And the clamav team has admitted as much and promised to do something about it. I didn't like that either, I am running 0.95 myself, so clamav stopped functioning. To remedy the situation, I dug into my archive and recovered an older, working, daily.cvd, and installed that on top of the broken one. The reason I replied is that the OP mentioned that 'mail stopped because of this', somehow implicating it's ClamAV's fault. It isn't. There are a number of reasons that a virus scanner can fail, a bad database is just one of them. What I wanted to point out is: unless you consider virus scanning more important than the actual flowing of emails, you need to make sure that failures in the virus scanning don't stop your mail from functioning. If scan failures do prevent your mail from being delivered, then right there is your first configuration error: go fix it so you don't depend on the virus scanner to always behave correctly, because it simply won't. There will always be unpredictable circumstances that make your virus scanner crash, so you must be prepared to deal with that. If that makes you feel uneasy, because it might let unscanned mail through, put a monitoring mechanism in place that alerts you as soon as the virus scanning fails. Or get a second virus scanner, and use them both in parallel (that's what I do - also gives you a nice way to compare performance). -- Jan-Pieter Cornet <joh...@xs4all.nl> "People are continuously reinventing the flat tyre". _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://www.clamav.net/support/ml
