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:
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>>>Your ClamAV installation is OUTDATED - please update immediately !
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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 In which way 0.68 (our running version) is "OUTDATED" ?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]



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