It’s more fine grained than that. Certain individual sigs require versions of ClamAV. So it’s not the whole package, it’s the sigs within
Sent from my iPhone > On Mar 14, 2021, at 05:46, Matus UHLAR - fantomas <uh...@fantomas.sk> wrote: > > >> >>>> On Mar 13, 2021, at 08:53, Matus UHLAR - fantomas <uh...@fantomas.sk> >>>> wrote: >>> >>>>> On 13.03.21 12:47, Joel Esler (jesler) via clamav-users wrote: >>>>> The qnap and synology issues are a result of the EOL of <0.100. Not as a >>>>> result of the abusive downloaders. Two separate issues. >>>> >>>> are freshclam versions <0.100 blocked? Because they seem to support >>>> cdiffs. >>>> I understand the rest. > >> On 13.03.21 20:42, Joel Esler (jesler) via clamav-users wrote: >> Yes. But we can’t have infinite amounts of versions of downloads sticking >> around. People have boxes and cronjobs long forgotten sitting there >> attempting to download the definitions for version 0.84. If we were to >> allow downloads for every version, we might as well shut down the project. >> Plus, it’s security software…. Update it! > >>>> It is becoming more and more necessary to enforce these cut off points >>>> because of many reasons. Load to the mirror network being one. So, .100, >>>> and .101 will continue to be supported for a bit, but soon, we’re going to >>>> have to cut those off too. >>> >>> Do those versions cause some additional problems for your mirrors? >> >> Yes. It’s at least two more versions downloading. Every version adds >> additional bandwidth consumption to the mirror network. > > are there different versions of clamav databases for different versions of > clamav scanner? > > I remember that few years ago, new signature was intentionally put to > database to crash make older clamav versions fail, but with proper message. > > That one indicated there was only one version available at that time. > -- > Matus UHLAR - fantomas, uh...@fantomas.sk ; http://www.fantomas.sk/ > Warning: I wish NOT to receive e-mail advertising to this address. > Varovanie: na tuto adresu chcem NEDOSTAVAT akukolvek reklamnu postu. > Chernobyl was an Windows 95 beta test site. > > _______________________________________________ > > clamav-users mailing list > clamav-users@lists.clamav.net > https://lists.clamav.net/mailman/listinfo/clamav-users > > > Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: > https://github.com/vrtadmin/clamav-faq > > http://www.clamav.net/contact.html#ml _______________________________________________ clamav-users mailing list clamav-users@lists.clamav.net https://lists.clamav.net/mailman/listinfo/clamav-users Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: https://github.com/vrtadmin/clamav-faq http://www.clamav.net/contact.html#ml
