On Sunday, April 25, 2004, 4:40:01 PM, Lionel Bouton wrote: LB> Christopher X. Candreva wrote the following on 04/25/2004 02:51 PM :
>>On Sun, 25 Apr 2004, John van Lit wrote: >> >> >> >>>Your ClamAV installation is OUTDATED - please update immediately ! >>> >>> >> >> >> LB> This message is kind of scary, and isn't really detailed enough (but LB> probably better than nothing) : LB> In which way 0.68 (our running version) is "OUTDATED" ? What does it LB> lack that could impact us ? The message doesn't state this so I checked LB> the 0.70 changelog and decided to rely on 0.68 until we have time for LB> testing 0.70. Now if in the future 0.80 brings something critical, this LB> message probably won't change and prompt me to do a changelog check. For LB> us it isn't really a concern as I am subscribed to clamav-users and LB> follows clamav's features, but it might probably be for casual users. LB> Now why we won't upgrade from 0.68 just now : LB> we just (less than 2 months ago) updated to 0.68 to benefit from the LB> signed cvd files and don't want to upgrade again if we don't need to. In LB> our case, upgrading means running various checks with normal files, rar, LB> zip, nested zip files and zip bombs in various conditions. We verify LB> that we have control over the directory clamav uses when uncompressing LB> archives, the error codes returned in various conditions (out of memory, LB> out of disk space), ... LB> Upgrading production systems isn't a matter of simply upgrading a few LB> rpm files... LB> Running 0.70 versus 0.68 seems to bring encrypted archive detection LB> support, we can live without it for now. Is there something else I missed ? LB> Best regards, With the 0.70 release Clam is able to extract VBA-Code from Word and Excel files. We started to add signatures for this and you can�t use them with the 0.68 release. This doesn�t mean that your Clam stops working, it just can�t detect any Macro-Virus inside a MS-Office document. hth -- Best regards, Christoph mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: The Robotic Monkeys at ThinkGeek For a limited time only, get FREE Ground shipping on all orders of $35 or more. Hurry up and shop folks, this offer expires April 30th! http://www.thinkgeek.com/freeshipping/?cpg=12297 _______________________________________________ Clamav-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/clamav-users
