On Tue, 01 Mar 2005 21:25:06 GMT, Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
ClamAV, which I am now testing, works as advertised. But I read you get a "ClamAV installation is OUTDATED" message whenever the update program decides you need a newer version.
Probably because they've still not hit a 1.0 release yet and it's very heavily in development. It'll still work if you don't upgrade, you just don't get the new signatures.
This will run on a production server; I cannot halt things every week to upgrade clamav.
No need to halt things, though my general position is that running development releases of software on a production system should, where possible, be avoided.
I've been running ClamAV for the past 3 versions (.80 to .83) for serveral months on a small server with about 25 users. The upgrade process is somewhat of a pain, as it seems to be fairly frequent, and you will get that message that you are outdated when a new release comes out. However, to get the level of protection that it's supplying is worth it. Previously, we'd get about 10 virii a day. Since installing, maybe one a month. To make sure that new virii aren't getting by, I don't mind upgrading. The upgrade is pretty straightforward each time and takes me about 15 minutes now.
Bottom line, IMHO, beats the pants of the Symantec AV Enterprise that I run as well. Easier to administrate, does the job better, and it's free.
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