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PokerNemo
05-04-2010, 08:36 PM
this is my version in my windows folder

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this is what SecurniaPSI says about it

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_Loki_
05-04-2010, 09:22 PM
I have Secunia & 8.4 & I get the same message too
It is saying that you (& me) are on version 8.4.1.9250 & it regards that as a security threat
Secunia is advising you to update to 8.4.2 (I think the latest version is actually 8.4.3 :) )

Here is the info you get if you click on the 'Online References' link inside secunia
PostgreSQL SSL Certificate Processing and Privilege Escalation Vulnerabilities - Advisories - Community (http://secunia.com/advisories/37663/)

THIS IS JUST MY OPINION ONLY: Secunia is very good, but it can be a bit TOO keen at times. I update most of the stuff it tells me to, but Secuna is not that smart
For example it keeps advising me about an XP SP patch I need...
but when I try MS update there are none needed (according to MS)
I have decided to ignore Secunia regarding postgreSQL, but that's just my opinion. Does anyone think otherwise ? Am I doing the wrong thing ?

PokerNemo
05-05-2010, 01:22 PM
i have no clue its really weird ...i downloaded the full install from here did a clean install and removed all reg keys etc etv and it gave me that ...when i download the "update" from postgres website and install 8.4.3 or w/e it is it wont let me update the files because it asks for my windows user account postgress password or something to that wording and using postgrespass it doesnt work so lol

_Loki_
05-05-2010, 02:09 PM
I'm unsure about your problem, but when I looked at 8.4.3 on the postgreSQL site it says that you can't 'update' to 8.4.3 from earlier than 8.4.2 without doing a dump/restore (which I think means you're basically installing a clean new version of postgreSQL)

In other words I don't think you can download the "full install from here" & then 'update' it to 8.4.3

you need to read the revision notes on the postgreSQL site it explains about the update paths