On Wed, 20 Aug 2008, Spiro Harvey, Knossos Networks Ltd wrote:
> > Bandwidth costs money.  How big will the database have to grow before
> > the ClamAV team starts to take notice?  Fifty megabytes?  A hundred?
> Americans don't understand this dilemma. To them traffic is free...

Minor correction: RICH Americans (and Canadians) don't appreciate this
dilemma. All the POOR people still using dial-up internet are the victims
of ever-increasing software/download size. I am routinely helping our
(community NFP internet) members clear out their mailboxes when some
ignorant friend on high speed keeps sending 5-10MB worth of photos. :(

I recently *stopped* advising our members to use AVG Free edition because
the latest download had bloated to nearly 40MB. That's roughly SEVEN hours
on a dial-up connection. I've started to recommend "ClamWin", but that
package is also slowly increasing in size. It's up to 21MB. Still, ClamAV
has the most efficient updates I've seen.... (smile)

- Charles

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