On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 12:36:36PM +0800, william villanueva wrote: > BTW, how well is clamav in terms of updates and reliability to filter > out virii?
ClamAV's database, which can be updated automatically via a cron job using a utility called freshclam, isn't updated as fast as those of other proprietary anti-virus solutions. It's decent, enough, though. For example, checking the virus database page[1], the latest database detects 9,436 viruses. viruses.db was last updated on 2003-08-26, while viruses2.db was last updated on 2003-08-27. The nice thing about ClamAV is that it's truly a community effort. The virus database page[1] contains a form to allow virus samples to be submitted for the database to be updated. --> Jijo [1] http://clamav.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/sendvirus.cgi -- Federico Sevilla III : http://jijo.free.net.ph : When we speak of free Network Administrator : The Leather Collection, Inc. : software we refer to GnuPG Key ID : 0x93B746BE : freedom, not price. -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
