luca at clamav
Jul 18, 2004, 9:56 AM
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important notice for people using ClamAV 0.60
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Dear ClamAV users,
our logs show that there is still a small percentage of ClamAV 0.60
installations updating their database.
ClamAV 0.60 was released on July 29th, 2003 and it was the last
release to use the old database format (viruses.db and viruses.db2).
Starting from version 0.65, released on November 12nd, ClamAV uses a
new database format called CVD, which is compressed and digitally signed
(for a full list of its features, read the doc).
The new database can be converted to the old format using sigtool (part of
the ClamAV package). We have been distributing the database in both
formats till now, but we plan to drop support for ClamAV 0.60
on September 1st.
It will be still possible to convert the database to the legacy format but
we won't be distributing it through our mirrors.
We encourage _all_ users to upgrade to the latest release available.
People running an old version of ClamAV are missing many viruses and
may experience stability problems.
You have more than 1 month to update your system. Please find
the latest source package at http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/clamav
or grab the latest binary package for your distribution at
http://www.clamav.net/binary.html#pagestart
The ClamAV team (http://www.clamav.net/team.html)
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Luca Gibelli (luca [at] clamav) - http://www.ClamAV.net - A GPL virus scanner
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