Thomas Hruska said: > Dennis Peterson wrote: > > Thank you but I already know the tool doesn't exist or I wouldn't be > wandering around this forum. Since the tool doesn't exist, I found the > _closest_ possible tool to the tool I am looking for and ClamAV happens > to be that tool. You should be proud that your tool is just shy of > being able to do something system administrators around the world want > to be able to do. Imagine the joy a sysadmin could experience by being > able to remotely scan a thousand plus machines on the LAN, and, in a > matter of 30 minutes, know which ones have spyware or have a virus > installed all from one tool. Now I know this isn't what ClamAV was > designed for, but that's the sort of thing you have to expect from > software and users - the unexpected but creative uses for a product. > Given that it should only take a week or two to gather signatures from > the various spyware vendor binaries, I don't see why you all are so > adamant about not adding rudimentary detection. To me, spyware is a > virus. The only difference is that it wreaks havoc on the human psyche > instead of wreaking havoc on binary data.
Imagine the joy a sysadmin could experience by not running Windows. That is what I've done and it works pretty well. However - for my fellow admins who cannot enjoy that experience there is Ad-Aware and similar tools and they run autonomously everywhere it's installed. Most have set it up to run during reboot and at least once a day. These are the tools I'd be running while we're all sitting our hands waiting for the rest of the world to get behind your notion that spyware is a virus and that software providers such as this group should do something about it for free. Meanwhile, why don't you create signatures for known spyware and place them in your configuration? ClamAV allows this, you know. If you get good at it you can share them. dp _______________________________________________ http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html
