Freshclam ignores system clamav version if user version is installed

[Scott Kitterman]

Binary package hint: clamav

Used Klamav to upgrade clamav to 0.90.3 some time ago for ~/user. Now with the current 0.91.1 installed via the packaging system, freshclam says:

freshclam daemon 0.91.1 (OS: linux-gnu, ARCH: i386, CPU: i486)
ClamAV update process started at Fri Aug 3 22:30:23 2007
WARNING: Your ClamAV installation is OUTDATED!
WARNING: Local version: 0.90.3 Recommended version: 0.91.1
DON'T PANIC! Read http://www.clamav.net/support/faq

Note that the freshclam daemon version and the recommended version are the same.

[Scott Kitterman (kitterman)]

Manually removing the clamav copy in /usr/local causes it to go away.

[Pander (pander)]

On Karmic

$ dpkg -l|grep clamav
ii clamav 0.95.3+dfsg-1ubuntu0.09.10.2 anti-virus utility for Unix - command-line i
ii clamav-base 0.95.3+dfsg-1ubuntu0.09.10.2 anti-virus utility for Unix - base package
ii clamav-freshclam 0.95.3+dfsg-1ubuntu0.09.10.2 anti-virus utility for Unix - virus database
ii libclamav6 0.95.3+dfsg-1ubuntu0.09.10.2 anti-virus utility for Unix - library

$ sudo freshclam -v
Current working dir is /var/lib/clamav/
Max retries == 5
ClamAV update process started at Tue Jun 22 11:47:00 2010
Using IPv6 aware code
Querying current.cvd.clamav.net
TTL: 347
Software version from DNS: 0.96.1
WARNING: Your ClamAV installation is OUTDATED!
WARNING: Local version: 0.95.3 Recommended version: 0.96.1
DON'T PANIC! Read http://www.clamav.net/support/faq
main.cvd version from DNS: 52
main.cld is up to date (version: 52, sigs: 704727, f-level: 44, builder: sven)
daily.cvd version from DNS: 11236
daily.cvd is up to date (version: 11236, sigs: 98043, f-level: 51, builder: guitar)

Please bump clamav to at least 0.69.1 and publish in Karmic updates repo. Probably the build for Lucid also compiles on Karmic.