Ubuntu
clamtk package

ClamAV antivirus engine requires updating

Bug #625996 reported by Jonathan Haxton on 2010-08-28

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	clamtk (Ubuntu)	Invalid	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: software-center

Am using Ubuntu 9.10

Using ClamTk Virus Scanner

Have successfully manually updated both GUI and virus definitions for some time but Antivirus engine is now out of date and needs updating through the software centre. Version currently used is 0.95.3 but there is now at least a version 0.96 available so the engine is reporting that it is out of date.

Not a very experienced user and try to avoid downloading software except directly through software centre and update manager. Was wondering if there were any plans to update the engine through the update centre?

Thanks

Jonathan

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
CheckboxSubmission: 73c3942c2e82a0a1f390a141c2d45f2b
CheckboxSystem: f134069bba098730d27f59b402920826
Date: Sat Aug 28 20:54:02 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
Package: software-center 1.0.3
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-22.63-generic
SourcePackage: software-center
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-22-generic i686
XsessionErrors:
(gnome-settings-daemon:2425): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
(nautilus:2452): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion `preferences_is_initialized ()' failed
(gnome-panel:2447): Gtk-WARNING **: gtk_widget_size_allocate(): attempt to allocate widget with width -3 and height 24
(gnome-panel:2447): Gdk-WARNING **: /build/buildd/gtk+2.0-2.18.3/gdk/x11/gdkdrawable-x11.c:952 drawable is not a pixmap or window
(firefox-bin:2540): GLib-WARNING **: g_set_prgname() called multiple times

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Jonathan Haxton (jonathanhaxton) wrote on 2010-08-28:

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Kiwinote (kiwinote) on 2010-08-30

affects:

software-center (Ubuntu) → clamtk (Ubuntu)

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David Sugar (dyfet-deactivatedaccount) wrote on 2010-08-30:

In Maverick, we have 0.96.1 of clamav in the archive. This is just one rev out from upstream (0.96.2).

Versions older than 0.94 however are being "obsoleted" for support for signature updates and support. Hence, I am suggesting this should become a sru issue for any supported distros we have clamav older than 95 that are still supported:

http://www.clamav.net/lang/en/ :

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT

On 15 April 2010 all ClamAV installations older than 0.95 will be disabled. See http://www.clamav.net/eol-clamav-094/ for more details.

This does not effect lucid, which is based on 0.96.1 also.

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Scott Kitterman (kitterman) wrote on 2010-08-30:

We do update clamav, but only after testing. Currently clamav 0.96.1 is available in karmic-backports for 9.10. We will, once it's ready, also provide 0.96.2.