Hi there, There's quite a lot of useful metadata available in the virus-db list. It would be nice to make this available in some way, even through the existing update infrastructure.
Before you gag on your cornflakes, the idea would not be to make the metadata available in sync with actual updates. It could be collated later at intervals. It would be possible to use freshclam to fetch this metadata db by adding a command-line switch. The data could be managed and stored by freshclam in the usual way. This would circumvent the bandwidth overhead of making it available by default and would also bring the management of signature-addition history under the control of the clamav project itself. Here are the pros and cons as I see them: Pros: * Metadata managed and distributed through clamav infrastructure (instead of gmane). * Optional downloading means only clients (e.g. frontends) who want it will fetch it. Cons: * Will require maintenance on a fairly regular basis. * Increased bandwidth utilization, however minimal. * Could be argued that a website is preferable, though this would make it harder for the likes of mailscanners, and event frontends, to avail of the metadata. Thoughts? Thanks, Robert -- KlamAV - An Anti-Virus Manager for KDE - http://www.klamav.net TorK - A Tor Controller For KDE - http://tork.sf.net _______________________________________________ http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-devel.html
