Release 4.60.2

[Julian Field]

Hugo van der Kooij wrote:
> On Mon, 21 May 2007, Julian Field wrote:
>
>> Hugo van der Kooij wrote:
>>> On Mon, 21 May 2007, Gerry Doris wrote:
>>>
>>>> Something appears to have happened to your ClamAV/SpamAssassin
>>>> tarballs.  I'm getting a "can't find the file" message when I click
>>>> on the website link for them.
>>>
>>> Just for fun. Can you tell me which exact page (URL) you are on?
>>>
>>> It seems that google had some obsolete pages at the top of the list.
>>> It bit me just recently when I did follow google hits instead of going
>>> to the website and following the menu.
>> Google had its "Download" link pointing to downloads.shtml and not
>> .html. So I just deleted the .shtml and made it a soft link to the
>> .html. So any difference in the files you are seeing now is your web
>> browser's cache being old.
>
> Just checked. The old page is no longer in the google database or at 
> least not rated very high. I guess they detected the link as duplicated.
>
> Putting an Eicar test file (or string) in a distribution file is 
> getting people into trouble however. Some can not avoid having to 
> download it through a scanner and the download will fail that way.
But isn't the Eicar file in the ClamAV download? I don't want to start 
shipping any different build of ClamAV from their supplied one. I 
suggest you take this up with the ClamAV guys.

Jules

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