Hi!
7-Янв-2005 14:11 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian Morrison) wrote to ClamAV users ML
<[email protected]>:
>> (Does this mean, that ClamAV developers suggest, that _all_
>> machines,
>> where ClamAV will work, - at home, at corporations, at Nuclear Plants
>> - should be internet-connected?)
BM> ClamAV is primarily for scanning email,
I plan to protect files (or, more precise, to make me sure, that my
_machine_ doesn't infected).
BM> I can't see how a machine that
BM> receives email can be completely divorced from the internet.
To work with emails, there exist also other ways, beside POP/SMTP over
TCP/IP.
BM> It may not have direct access, but what about its local mail server(s)?
Of course, mail servers itself have inet access, but this is another
story.
BM> I can't work out exactly what your objections are to the way that ClamAV
BM> provides database updates.
There are some objections:
- updating from internet reqiures lived online access; this is not always
possible - either no online at all or broken link (do you remember how
NIMDA virus broke internet in Korea?).
- non-broadband users pays _for traffic_ (whereas ClamAV bases are not too
small, especially in compare with, for example, Dr.Web).
- "only one" way may be decepted (though, for me this is too abstract
thing).
If think more, there may be found also other objections.
BM> There is always a way of ensuring firewalled
BM> access for a machine that needs to run ClamAV and if even that risk is
BM> too great then surely someone is taking better care to ensure that site
BM> policy prevents unauthorised access to any computer under all circumstances.
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