Phil Pennock wrote:
> [resend, correct sender this time, text written yesterday]
> 
> While I can't gather stats on which scanners are deployed at Exim
> installs, I think it reasonable to assume that *many* installs make use
> of ClamAV.
> 
> The developers today sent a reminder to the clamav-announce
> mailing-list [†], stating:
> 
>   this is a reminder that starting from 15 April 2010 our CVD will contain
>   a special signature which disables all clamd installations older than
>   0.95 - that is to say older than 1 year.
> 
> http://lurker.clamav.net/message/20100407.141109.2a7c287b.en.html
> 
> I'd really rather not face a flood of complaints on exim-users from
> April 15th that ClamAV has broken and asking for help debugging it.  I
> suspect that my hope is forlorn and that even the careful inclusion of
> words in this mail, to match search-engines, won't help with people who
> post to lists asking for help without doing basic research themselves
> first.  But hey, I'll pile in the keywords anyway.  And if you found
> this message by searching, then: "Thank You!  You rock!"
> 
> Ways to check the version of ClamAV:
>  $ clamdscan --version
>  $ clamscan --version
>  $ exim -be '${readsocket{inet:127.0.0.1:3310}{VERSION}}'
>  $ exim -be '${readsocket{/var/run/clamav/clamd}{VERSION}}'
> 
> Regards,
> -Phil
> 
> † Yes, that's a hint to subscribe to the announce lists of software you
>   care about
> 
> Keyword fodder:
> Exim; exim broken; anti-virus scanner; AV scanner; exim won't detect
> viruses; why is Exim not working with ClamAV any more?  Help, Exim
> virus-scanning is broken.  How do I fix virus-scanning in Exim?  What's
> happened to my virus-scanning in Exim?  Exim broke today.
> 
> 

Phil,

Thank you for that considerate and useful advisory!

Bill


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