Hi Kees, Thanks for "comparing notes" - that was helpful. I have thus changed the subject line of this threat to better reflect that this problem might be specific to their official Windows build, as this has been a possible common factor among those who reported it.
To answer your question: With 0.99.2 the version string had been: >clamscan --version ClamAV 0.99.2/24359/Sat Mar 03 04:14:20 2018 With 0.99.4 the format of the version string did INDEED change to: >clamscan --version ClamAV clamav-0.99.4/24377/Fri Mar 09 04:13:20 2018 >clamdscan --version ClamAV clamav-0.99.4/24377/Fri Mar 09 04:13:20 2018 So this could very well explain the current misleading error message: Sat Mar 03 12:29:38 2018 -> freshclam daemon clamav-0.99.4 (OS: win32, ARCH: x86_64, CPU: x86_64) ... Fri Mar 09 11:59:03 2018 -> ClamAV update process started at Fri Mar 09 11:59:03 2018 Fri Mar 09 11:59:03 2018 -> WARNING: Your ClamAV installation is OUTDATED! Fri Mar 09 11:59:03 2018 -> WARNING: Local version: clamav-0.99.4 Recommended version: 0.99.4 For comparison, with 0.99.2 the format of that same (but contextually valid) error message had instead been: Sat Mar 03 12:23:23 2018 -> ClamAV update process started at Sat Mar 03 12:23:23 2018 Sat Mar 03 12:23:23 2018 -> WARNING: Your ClamAV installation is OUTDATED! Sat Mar 03 12:23:23 2018 -> WARNING: Local version: 0.99.2 Recommended version: 0.99.4 I still maintain that this is a legitimate mention of a misbehavior by the original reporter, while I had been sitting back and let someone else take the heat for daring to suggest that this message clearly was not "as intended". Best Regards Andy -----Original Message----- From: Kees Theunissen <c.j.theunis...@differ.nl> Sent: Friday, March 9, 2018 9:44 AM To: ClamAV users ML <clamav-users@lists.clamav.net> Subject: Re: [clamav-users] ClamAVR blog: ClamAV 0.99.4 has been released! On Thu, 8 Mar 2018, Andy Schmidt wrote: >Nah, Brian, in this case it's actually a bug, albeit a "cosmetic" one. >I have been getting the same misleading error message on every system >ever since I upgraded to 0.99.4 - so I suspect many, if not all others, have too: > > Thu Mar 08 11:46:31 2018 -> WARNING: Local version: clamav-0.99.4 >Recommended version: 0.99.4 I only saw messages like Mar 7 16:41:18 pcict9 freshclam[1311]: Local version: 0.99.3 Recommended version: 0.99.4 Until I upgraded to a locally compiled 0.99.4 package. After that I didn't see such warnings anymore -- as expected. > >So, thanks Brian, for being the one reporting it. I had "let it slide" >though, given that they had just hoped to have fixed that same error >last weekend, when FreshClam thought that even 0.99.3 was recommended >instead of an already installed 0.99.4. > >Clearly there is some imperfect comparison being performed prior to >issuing this message, when even identical "local" vs. "recommended" >versions are evaluated as "not equal". The version strings "clamav-0.99.4" and "0.99.4" are not identical. The package that you installed seems to have been built with a wrong version string (including the phrase "clamav-"). How is your version shown by commands like "freshclam --version" or "clamscan --version"? ~$ freshclam --version ClamAV 0.99.4/24377/Fri Mar 9 10:13:20 2018 ~$ clamscan --version ClamAV 0.99.4/24377/Fri Mar 9 10:13:20 2018 In your case I would expect somthing like: ClamAV clamav-0.99.4/24377/Fri Mar 9 10:13:20 2018 Regards, Kees Theunissen. _______________________________________________ clamav-users mailing list clamav-users@lists.clamav.net http://lists.clamav.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/clamav-users Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: https://github.com/vrtadmin/clamav-faq http://www.clamav.net/contact.html#ml
