>-----Original Message----- >From: Federico Sevilla III [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Monday, September 15, 2003 10:50 PM >To: Philippine Linux Users Group Mailing List >Subject: Re: [plug] Anti virus with mailscanner > > >On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 10:41:40PM -0400, Tapang, Roderick (GXS) wrote: >> Clam AV is free (but doesn't have an up to date virus database. > >This is false. For information on the ClamAV virus database, check out >their website[1]. You'll notice that the current viruses.db >database was >last updated on 2003-09-03, and viruses.db2 on 2003-09-14. With these, >ClamAV detects 9589 viruses.
>However ClamAV relies on the community to detect new viruses, so bigger >anti-viruses houses like Kaspersky Labs or Network Associates will be >able to respond to new viruses much faster than ClamAV will. that's what i meant. :) uh, and possibly why the commercial virus makers first take hold of new strains is that they have their own virus makers? ;D erik -- 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
