Re: [Clamav-users] backward compatibility questions

2005-06-01 Thread Joanna Roman


--- Brian Morrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 On Wed, 1 Jun 2005 09:16:06 -0700 (PDT) in
 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Joanna Roman
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  I am using 0.83. If I do not upgrade, will clamd
  eventually refuse to reload main.cvd and daily.cvd
 ? I
  already noticed that the new sigtool refuses to
 list
  sigs if I used it on older versions of virus
 databases.
 
 The last time this happened I think that the
 database format changed
 about the time that 0.8x appeared and that meant
 that 0.65 and earlier
 would not be able to read the new versions.
 
 Yes, 0.8x will eventually be useless but by then new
 versions will be
 out and you will be seriously lacking in protection
 if you have not
 upgraded already.
 
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 Brian Morrison
 
 bdm at fenrir dot org dot uk
 
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I dont think odd that the virus db format got changed
again is very low. BTW, what do you mean by 0.8x is
'useless' ? What do you mean by 'useless' ?

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Re: [Clamav-users] backward compatibility questions

2005-06-01 Thread Brian Morrison
On Wed, 1 Jun 2005 11:41:46 -0700 (PDT) in
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Joanna Roman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

  I dont think odd that the virus db format got changed
  again is very low. BTW, what do you mean by 0.8x is
  'useless' ? What do you mean by 'useless' ?

I mean that if you are using 0.8x when say 0.99 is available, it is very
likely that 0.8x will be unable to recognise many threats that 0.99 can.
It's one thing to have a database that can be read OK, but if the
signatures cannot be recognised then the new database does not buy you
very much.

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Brian Morrison

bdm at fenrir dot org dot uk

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