On February 3, 2018 3:09:29 AM UTC, Al Varnell <alvarn...@mac.com> wrote: >On Fri, Feb 02, 2018 at 06:06 PM, Paul B. wrote: >>> You can't mix distro packages and builds from upstream source >>> on the same system. If you're going to switch from one to the >>> other, you have to uninstall. >> >>> Scott K >> >> That's initially what I did. I was going to avoid 99.3 because of >some >> problems reported here, so I went with 99.2 in the repo. It failed. >So >> something was wrong with the system before anything was done. Others >> have tried to install 99.2 for my benefit and it went fine. So their >> advice is to reinstall the OS, which I'm going to do. >> >> Paul > > >There may be some confusion on your part with regard to 99.3. There >were two beta releases of 0.99.3 which have been discussed here over >several months, but have now been withdrawn in order to release a >different 0.99.3 which is almost only a security release with a couple >of minor bug fixes. AFAIK, there have been no major issues with that >release beyond installation problems such as you are having. > >I suspect the right answer in your case is to pressure the OS >distributor to quickly integrate the current 0.99.3 release into >something you can install ASAP, before those now public vulnerabilities >can be exploited.
Keep in mind that Debian itself cherry-picked the relevant fixes into a patch update to 0.99.2. If you are on Debian stable or a direct derivative of stable, and have at least 0.99.2+dfsg-6+deb9u1, then you have all the security fixes included in 0.99.3. Scott K _______________________________________________ clamav-users mailing list clamav-users@lists.clamav.net http://lists.clamav.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/clamav-users Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: https://github.com/vrtadmin/clamav-faq http://www.clamav.net/contact.html#ml
