[clamav-users] Virus database not updated since 14th July 2021

[G.W. Haywood]

Hi there,

On Tue, 8 Mar 2022, Jerzy Witwinowski via clamav-users wrote:

> ... I realized today that my virus database on my personal computer
> at home (an old PC running the last version of KDE Neon) hasn't been
> updated since 14th July 2021. ...

As Mr. Broekman suggests I'm sure your ClamAV installation is outdated.

Look in the freshclam log - if you have one, it likely will have been
telling you for a while, if only you'd looked at it.

Check the man page for freshclam, particularly this configuration option:

--on-update-execute

You can e.g. get freshclam to mail you when it fails to update, so you
won't be caught with your pants down again.  At least not this way.

You might want to subscribe to the announcements list, it's low volume.

Look at the ClamAV blog, which has plenty of detail about this issue:

https://blog.clamav.net

And for all our sakes, please take security a little more seriously.

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73,
Ged.