SV: Still clamav update problems

[Steen, Glenn]

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As someone (Mark Nienberg was it?) mentioned, the "funcionality level" thing is a way for the clamav team to force you to upgrade your engine (ie install the latest clamav). If you ignore it, you'll eventually not get the signature updates, so best heed it.

About the generic thing. Jules, in his infinite wisdom, has provided a stub AV scanner (scripts really) that we can use to ... implement our own scanner. This is called "generic". As with any scanner MS finds, it'll run its update script regardless of whether you use it or not (also due to Jules wisdom, it's a good thing, since it'll mean that the scanner is updated if/when you decide to use it).

-- Glenn


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Ämne:	Still clamav update problems
I have been fighting with this still.  Thank you for all of your
responses and it has helped me learn a good bit.

I am still getting:
--------------------- clam-update Begin ------------------------ 

   daily.cvd updated

**Unmatched Entries**
   WARNING: Your ClamAV installation is OUTDATED!: 10 Time(s)
   DON'T PANIC! Read http://www.clamav.net/faq.html: 10 Time(s)
   WARNING: Current functionality level = 4, recommended = 5: 10 Time(s)

 ---------------------- clam-update End -------------------------

If I log into my mailscanner machine and run "freshclam" it returns:
[root at WoodenMS bpumphrey]# freshclam
ClamAV update process started at Fri Jun 17 11:58:41 2005
main.cvd is up to date (version: 32, sigs: 34720, f-level: 5, builder:
tkojm)
daily.cvd is up to date (version: 944, sigs: 1001, f-level: 5, builder:
arnaud)

So this is a success.

When I run the mailscanner update_virus_scanners the log returns:
Jun 17 12:05:28 WoodenMS update.virus.scanners: Found bitdefender
installed
Jun 17 12:05:28 WoodenMS update.virus.scanners: Running autoupdate for
bitdefend
er
Jun 17 12:05:47 WoodenMS update.virus.scanners: Found clamav installed
Jun 17 12:05:47 WoodenMS update.virus.scanners: Running autoupdate for
clamav
Jun 17 12:05:47 WoodenMS ClamAV-autoupdate[27517]: ClamAV did not need
updating
Jun 17 12:05:47 WoodenMS update.virus.scanners: Found generic installed
Jun 17 12:05:47 WoodenMS update.virus.scanners: Running autoupdate for
generic

So everything looks ok there.  Side question - Why does it find a
generic?  My mailscanner.conf says: Virus Scanners = clamav bitdefender

Does anyone know where the error is coming from?

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