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Clamav out of date

I am running debian and have clamav installed on my server

how do i update it?

I keeps saying
WARNING: Your ClamAV installation is OUTDATED!

Please help me

Thanks

You should install a newer version of clamav. The latest one is 0.87.1. Check if there is a debian package of clamav and use apt-get to install it, or else d/l from here the source and compile it yourself. Also run "freshclam" to update the virus definitions.

when i run freshclam i get this

Quote:

ClamAV update process started at Tue Jan 3 23:08:39 2006
WARNING: Your ClamAV installation is OUTDATED!
WARNING: Local version: 0.84 Recommended version: 0.87.1
DON'T PANIC! Read http://www.clamav.net/faq.html
main.cvd is up to date (version: 34, sigs: 39625, f-level: 5, builder: tkojm)
WARNING: Your ClamAV installation is OUTDATED!
WARNING: Current functionality level = 4, recommended = 5
DON'T PANIC! Read http://www.clamav.net/faq.html
daily.cvd is up to date (version: 1227, sigs: 2427, f-level: 6, builder: arnaud)
WARNING: Your ClamAV installation is OUTDATED!
WARNING: Current functionality level = 4, recommended = 6
DON'T PANIC! Read http://www.clamav.net/faq.html
mailman:/var/mail# man freshclam
Reformatting freshclam(1), please wait...

And did you read http://www.clamav.net/faq.html like it says?

yes i did but it does not say much about updating

i installed all other packets and it seams to be updating

well sure what do i have to worry about only when i link it into emails i will start to worry

Thanks