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Asked: 2014-07-13 22:43:34 +0800 CST

Up to date ClamAV on Debian Wheezy (ClamAV installation is OUTDATED log message)

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I've installed ClamAV on Debian Wheezy from the offical repositories, using apt. System is up to date and I don't get any updates via apt-get upgrade, but still I get this message in the logs:

Your ClamAV installation is OUTDATED!

My version is:

$ clamscan -V
ClamAV 0.98.1/19186/Sun Jul 13 00:34:56 2014

On the official page:

Latest ClamAV® stable release is: 0.98.4

Looks like the official stable repos for Wheezy are not up to date. The only information I've found is official info about Debian Volatile project, which is now closed since Squeeze.

Are there any alternative repositories?
How can I keep ClamAV always up to date and be sure the system is stable?

Edit:

My /etc/apt/sources.list:

deb http://ftp.ru.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main non-free contrib
deb http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp.ru.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-updates main contrib non-free



$ dpkg -l 'clamav*'


||/ Name                                     Version                   Architecture              Description
+++-========================================-=========================-=========================-======================================================================================
ii  clamav                                   0.98.4+dfsg-0+deb7u2      amd64                     anti-virus utility for Unix - command-line interface
ii  clamav-base                              0.98.4+dfsg-0+deb7u2      all                       anti-virus utility for Unix - base package
ii  clamav-daemon                            0.98.4+dfsg-0+deb7u2      amd64                     anti-virus utility for Unix - scanner daemon
un  clamav-data                              <none>                                              (no description available)
ii  clamav-docs                              0.98.4+dfsg-0+deb7u2      all                       anti-virus utility for Unix - documentation
ii  clamav-freshclam                         0.98.4+dfsg-0+deb7u2      amd64                     anti-virus utility for Unix - virus database update utility
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2 Answers

  1. I had the same problem. I down some digging read The Perfect Server - Debian Wheezy (Apache2, BIND, Dovecot, ISPConfig 3) - Page 3 This sorted my "Your ClamAV installation is OUTDATED!"

    First make sure that your /etc/apt/sources.list contains the wheezy-updates repository (this makes sure you always get the newest updates for the ClamAV virus scanner - this project publishes releases very often, and sometimes old versions stop working), and that the contrib and non-free repositories are enabled (some packages such as libapache2-mod-fastcgi are not in the main repository).

    Add these lines to your /etc/apt/sources.list

    # wheezy-updates, previously known as 'volatile'
deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-updates main contrib non-free

    Then run command apt-get update then apt-get dist-upgrade worked for me.

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  2. Make sure the basic wheezy repository is enabled in /etc/apt/sources.list.

    It's a bit odd; newest clamav on Wheezy is not on wheezy-updates repository, but wheezy repository instead:

    wheezy-update: 0.98.1+dfsg-1+deb7u4
wheezy       : 0.98.4+dfsg-0+deb7u2

    If you haven't enabled any apt pinning (need not worry about it if you don't know those settings, otherwise the pinning must be undone), apt-get upgrade or apt-get dist-upgrade should be fetching newest version after apt-get update.

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