On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 13:26, Federico Sevilla III wrote: > 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
clamav's db is fairly updated. just scanned some stuff, it found the sobig virus. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ clamscan movie0045.pif movie0045.pif: Worm.Sobig.F FOUND ----------- SCAN SUMMARY ----------- Known viruses: 9433 Scanned directories: 0 Scanned files: 1 Infected files: 1 Data scanned: 0.07 Mb I/O buffer size: 131072 bytes Time: 0.589 sec (0 m 0 s) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$
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