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Bart Silverstrim wrote:
> Markus Schönhaber wrote:
>
>> Graham Watkins wrote:
>>
>>
>>> I first installed the version shown under Synaptic Package Manager but
>>> whenever I tried to run it I was informed that this version was out of
>>> date and so far as I could tell that was the end of the exercise.
>>>
>> End of the exercise? Why? What was the actual problem besides clamav
>> informing you of the availability of a newer upstream release?
>>
>> There even might be a newer version in the backports-repository for your
>> Ubuntu version.
>>
>
> Just to be clear...are you sure it wasn't telling you the *database* was
> out of date?
>
> You'd need to run sudo freshclam to update the virus definitions update
> for ClamAV.
>
> -Bart
>
>
No, it was telling me the program itself was out of date. This seems to
be a problem as by the time we get Ubuntu binaries they are already out
of date. I would have thought that out of date virus protection was
better than no virus protection at all. Still, what do I know?
Graham
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