Anti-virus programs are great… provided you keep them up to date! Sometimes keeping them up to date can be tricky if they are prepackaged from a repository – you have to wait until someone packages the updated version. This isn’t ideal, as I discovered one day after checking my ClamAV freshclam.log<\/strong><\/p>\n I noticed that on reboot I would get the familiar message at startup that the ClamAV engine was out of date, but I thought to myself: “No problem, won’t be long before a new version is uploaded to the repository, and in the mean time, at least I’m getting the latest definitions.” – WRONG!<\/p>\n A quick check of my freshclam.log<\/strong> (the log file written to each time ClamAv updates itself) revealed this:<\/p>\n There is a way to get the latest versions via the PPA for Clamav Update Team<\/strong><\/a> – By adding their repository we can get a newer version of ClamAV for Ubuntu.<\/p>\n WARNING<\/strong>!<\/span><\/p>\n This “untrusted” PPA uses unsupported packages – Use at your own risk!! (sure, but try finding the updates any place else for Ubuntu…)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n First of all, visit the ClamAV website to determine the latest version<\/a> of the ClamAV engine.<\/p>\n Next visit the PPA for Clamav Update Team<\/a> and check the section titled “Overview of Published Packages<\/a>“, and filter by your version of Ubuntu.<\/p>\n Check the section of the PPA titled “Adding this PPA to your system<\/a>“, and expand the section “Technical details about this PPA<\/em>” – it’s important to note the value detailed under “Fingerprint<\/strong>“<\/p>\n To start installing and using software from a Personal Package Archive (PPA<\/strong>), you first need to tell Ubuntu where to find it. Add the repository to your apt sources file…<\/p>\n Where ubuntu_version<\/strong><\/em> would be lucid, maverick, natty, oneiric, etc…<\/p>\n This repository is signed by the PPA’s public key, which you can install so that you don’t get asked for confirmation all the time.<\/p>\n Note: That command is all on one line…<\/p>\n Now update the repository listings and install the updates.<\/p>\n If you’re worried you might pick up some “unproven” source next time you’re doing your updates, simply comment out the two lines above after you’ve got the newer version of ClamAV… Yay!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The freshest clams Anti-virus programs are great… provided you keep them up to date! Sometimes keeping them up to date can be tricky if they are prepackaged from a repository – you have to wait until someone packages the updated version. This isn’t ideal, as I discovered one day after checking my ClamAV freshclam.log I… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[104,28,101,103,102,76],"class_list":["post-107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technical-resource","tag-apt","tag-clamav","tag-freshclam-log","tag-ppa","tag-repository","tag-sources-list"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/templesoft.co.nz\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/templesoft.co.nz\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/templesoft.co.nz\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/templesoft.co.nz\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/templesoft.co.nz\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=107"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/templesoft.co.nz\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":169,"href":"https:\/\/templesoft.co.nz\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions\/169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/templesoft.co.nz\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/templesoft.co.nz\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/templesoft.co.nz\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}sudo tail -f \/var\/log\/clamav\/freshclam.log\r\n\r\n-> ClamAV update process started at Sun Feb 12 06:44:40 2012<\/span>\r\n-> WARNING: Your ClamAV installation is OUTDATED<\/strong>!<\/span>\r\n-> WARNING: Local version: 0.96.5 Recommended version: 0.97.3<\/span>\r\n-> DON'T PANIC! Read http:\/\/www.clamav.net\/support\/faq<\/span>\r\n-> main.cld is up to date (version: 54, sigs: 1044387, f-level: 60, builder: sven)<\/span>\r\n-> WARNING: getpatch: Can't download daily-14129.cdiff from db.local.clamav.net<\/span>\r\n-> WARNING: getpatch: Can't download daily-14129.cdiff from db.local.clamav.net<\/span>\r\n-> WARNING: getpatch: Can't download daily-14129.cdiff from db.local.clamav.net<\/span>\r\n-> WARNING: getpatch: Can't download daily-14129.cdiff from db.local.clamav.net<\/span>\r\n-> WARNING: getpatch: Can't download daily-14129.cdiff from db.local.clamav.net<\/span>\r\n-> WARNING: Incremental update failed, trying to download daily.cvd<\/span>\r\n-> WARNING: Can't download daily.cvd from db.local.clamav.net<\/span>\r\n-> Trying again in 5 secs...<\/span><\/pre>\nThe work-around<\/h2>\n
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sudo vi \/etc\/apt\/sources.list\r\n\r\ndeb http:\/\/ppa.launchpad.net\/ubuntu-clamav\/ppa\/ubuntu ubuntu_version<\/strong><\/em> main<\/span>\r\ndeb-src http:\/\/ppa.launchpad.net\/ubuntu-clamav\/ppa\/ubuntu ubuntu_version<\/strong><\/em> main<\/span><\/pre>\nsudo apt-key advanced --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com<\/strong> --recv-keys F80220D0E695A455E651AC4D8AB767895ADC2037<\/strong><\/pre>\n
sudo aptitude update\r\nsudo aptitude safe-upgrade<\/pre>\n