Kees, Andy, You're correct that it is legitimate mis-behavior. This is my fault. I just sent an explanation as a response to the 0.99.4 blog announcement thread explaining the source of the issue.
Sorry for the trouble, Micah Micah Snyder ClamAV Development Talos Cisco Systems, Inc. On Mar 9, 2018, at 12:33 PM, Andy Schmidt <andy_schm...@hm-software.com<mailto:andy_schm...@hm-software.com>> wrote: 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 WARNING: Your ClamAV installation is OUTDATED!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 WARNING: Your ClamAV installation is OUTDATED!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<mailto:c.j.theunis...@differ.nl>> Sent: Friday, March 9, 2018 9:44 AM To: ClamAV users ML <clamav-users@lists.clamav.net<mailto: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<mailto: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 _______________________________________________ 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
