Christopher X. Candreva wrote: > In my experience, it means a database maintainer who made a simple mistake > in one line. > I don't think this'll really add anything useful to the discussion.... but I've seen that happen in one of the mrsbl databases.. but there are some small things the non-ClamAV Team database maintainers can do to avoid it:
I test my databases before I send them out like this: clamscan -d c:\clamav~1\share\clamav\phish.ndb phish_sigtest.txt clamscan -d c:\clamav~1\share\clamav\scam.ndb scam_sigtest.txt If either give errorlevel 50... then I don't bother creating the gzipped version of the database for upload :) I guess that means end-users only then have to gzip test their downloaded file to see if it's survived the trip over the internet.... ie... gzip --test phish.ndb.gz. If it's errorlevel 1 then you've got a problem, otherwise you can unzip! The unzip testing is a good idea... as I managed to upload a 0 byte phish.ndb.gz file, due to an odd firewall bug, which meant that my ftp host only received a 0 byte file :( Cheers, Steve _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html
