On Sunday 10 November 2002 1:02 pm, Tomasz Kojm wrote: > > Hi. > > > > I'd like to swap our email virus scanning system over from Sophos > > (running on Linux, of course) to Clamav, but I'm being asked how quickly > > new signatures are made available for new viruses. With Sophos we get > > an email alert within a few hours, and can immediately download the new > > signature, or just run an update once a day etc. > > > > How quickly are new signatures produced for Clamav, and how do we get to > > know they exist ? (Maybe there's some new-sig-announce mailing list I > > haven't found yet ?). > > The only problem is an access to the virus files. Commercial corporations > are subscribed to the many virus information services (unhappily they're > not free, please look at the Virus Bulletin page - www.virusbtn.com), so > they can update their databases more quickly than clamav.
So how quickly *are* the signatures for Clamav updated ? It might still be acceptable for my boss, even if it's slower than Sophos. Antony. -- Behind the counter a boy with a shaven head stared vacantly into space, a dozen spikes of microsoft protruding from the socket behind his ear. - William Gibson, Neuromancer (1984) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
