Sandeep Sachdev wrote: > Hi, > > I'm new to using clam and I've got a few questions I was hoping I could get > answered.I had a quick look around the FAQ, documentation and mail list > archives but didn't find information on these questions. > > 1. When a new binary is released. How quickly will I need to update to it > before I might be unprotected from the latest viruses. Is it usually a matter > or days/weeks/months? > > 2.How quickly will clamscan or clamdscan warn me that I am using an older > binary. I'm assuming something will be output when i run clamscan or > clamdscan. Is this assumption correct? Does this only occur once the virus > database contains virus signatures that aren't supported with the older > binary. > > 3.Will clamscan/clamdscan only start outputting warnings once the virus > database is 7 days out of date. Is there any way to configure when this > message starts appearing. Say for example can I make it appear after 3 days? > > thanks very much for your help > Sandeep > > > >
For me it depends on if it is a major release or minor release version I'm upgrading to. If it's a major release, like from 0.88 to 0.90 I would install the new major release on a test machine first and read the mailing lists for a few weeks before trying it on a production machine. Then if all seems good, I roll it out to one production machine and let it run for a week or so before rolling it out to the rest of the production machines. Minor releases usually contain bug fixes and security updates, so I roll those out slightly faster, but I still test it first. -Scott Oertel _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html
