[Clamav-users] Small number of ClamAV known viruses ?

2006-07-18 Thread Zvi Kave
Why ClamAV has significally small number of known viruses in comparison to other AV software ? Thanks, Zvi ___ http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html

Re: [Clamav-users] Small number of ClamAV known viruses ?

2006-07-18 Thread Daniel J McDonald
On Tue, 2006-07-18 at 17:11 +0200, Zvi Kave wrote: Why ClamAV has significally small number of known viruses in comparison to other AV software ? I don't think that's true. 62 thousand signatures is a healthy amount. main.cvd is up to date (version: 39, sigs: 58116, f-level: 8, builder: tkojm)

Re: [Clamav-users] Small number of ClamAV known viruses ?

2006-07-18 Thread Jim Maul
Daniel J McDonald wrote: On Tue, 2006-07-18 at 17:11 +0200, Zvi Kave wrote: Why ClamAV has significally small number of known viruses in comparison to other AV software ? I don't think that's true. 62 thousand signatures is a healthy amount. main.cvd is up to date (version: 39, sigs: 58116,

Re: [Clamav-users] Small number of ClamAV known viruses ?

2006-07-18 Thread Dennis Peterson
Zvi Kave wrote: Why ClamAV has significally small number of known viruses in comparison to other AV software ? There's only a small number of viruses in the wild. MS-DOS viruses from 10 years ago are not likely to pose a problem any longer. Having them in your database only allows you to

Re: [Clamav-users] Small number of ClamAV known viruses ?

2006-07-18 Thread Nigel Horne
Jim Maul wrote: Not to mention that clamav was designed to be an email virus scanner. TK may disagree with me on this, but I have the feeling that the above statement is not true. I believe (TK may correct me on this) that it would be better to say that it has evolved into the state where is

Re: [Clamav-users] Small number of ClamAV known viruses ?

2006-07-18 Thread Tomasz Kojm
On Tue, 18 Jul 2006 16:05:34 +0100 Nigel Horne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jim Maul wrote: Not to mention that clamav was designed to be an email virus scanner. TK may disagree with me on this, but I have the feeling that the above statement is not true. I believe (TK may correct me on

[Clamav-users] Virus Definitions on a Private Network

2006-07-18 Thread Kathy Rossi
Greetings, I am a new CLAMAV user. Is there any documentation anywhere that descibes how to load new Virus definitions onto a system (and network) that is not attached to the internet? Thanks, Kathy ___

Re: [Clamav-users] Virus Definitions on a Private Network

2006-07-18 Thread Jim Maul
Kathy Rossi wrote: Greetings, I am a new CLAMAV user. Is there any documentation anywhere that descibes how to load new Virus definitions onto a system (and network) that is not attached to the internet? http://www.clamav.net/faq.html#pagestart #26 -Jim

Re: [Clamav-users] Small number of ClamAV known viruses ?

2006-07-18 Thread Nigel Horne
Tomasz Kojm wrote: Well, it was initially designed as an addition to mail scanners such as AMaViS and also a supplement to OpenAntiVirus which was lacking a command line scanner. Ah yes, I'd forgotten OpenAntiVirus and the connection there. -- Nigel Horne. Arranger, Adjudicator, Band

Re: [Clamav-users] Small number of ClamAV known viruses ?

2006-07-18 Thread Rob MacGregor
On 7/18/06, Nigel Horne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: TK may disagree with me on this, but I have the feeling that the above statement is not true. I believe (TK may correct me on this) that it would be better to say that it has evolved into the state where is it mostly an email virus scanner. But

Re: [Clamav-users] Small number of ClamAV known viruses ?

2006-07-18 Thread Nigel Horne
Rob MacGregor wrote: On 7/18/06, Nigel Horne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: TK may disagree with me on this, but I have the feeling that the above statement is not true. I believe (TK may correct me on this) that it would be better to say that it has evolved into the state where is it mostly an

[Clamav-users] clamav update

2006-07-18 Thread brian
hello List, since some weeks I get in my logfile the massage WARNING: Your ClamAV installation is OUTDATED! WARNING: Local version: 0.88.2 Recommended version: 0.88.3 I use debian Sarge and my apt-source are like the description on clamav.net deb http://ftp2.de.debian.org/debian-volatile

Re: [Clamav-users] clamav update

2006-07-18 Thread Dennis Peterson
brian wrote: hello List, since some weeks I get in my logfile the massage WARNING: Your ClamAV installation is OUTDATED! WARNING: Local version: 0.88.2 Recommended version: 0.88.3 I use debian Sarge and my apt-source are like the description on clamav.net deb

Re: [Clamav-users] clamav update

2006-07-18 Thread Daniel T. Staal
On Tue, July 18, 2006 3:00 pm, brian said: hello List, since some weeks I get in my logfile the massage WARNING: Your ClamAV installation is OUTDATED! WARNING: Local version: 0.88.2 Recommended version: 0.88.3 I use debian Sarge and my apt-source are like the description on clamav.net

Re: [Clamav-users] clamav update

2006-07-18 Thread Daniel J McDonald
On Tue, 2006-07-18 at 12:05 -0700, Dennis Peterson wrote: brian wrote: hello List, since some weeks I get in my logfile the massage WARNING: Your ClamAV installation is OUTDATED! WARNING: Local version: 0.88.2 Recommended version: 0.88.3 I use debian Sarge and my apt-source

RE: [Clamav-users] clamav update

2006-07-18 Thread Robert Isaac
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of brian Sent: 18 July 2006 20:01 To: clamav-users@lists.clamav.net Subject: [Clamav-users] clamav update hello List, since some weeks I get in my logfile the massage WARNING: Your ClamAV

RE: [Clamav-users] clamav update

2006-07-18 Thread Gary V
I use debian Sarge and my apt-source are like the description on clamav.net deb http://ftp2.de.debian.org/debian-volatile sarge/volatile main contrib non-free but there are no updates .. whats wrong ?? thanx, Brian http://lurker.clamav.net/message/20060712.141440.8eef57a6.en.html

Re: [Clamav-users] Small number of ClamAV known viruses ?

2006-07-18 Thread Jan-Pieter Cornet
On Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 07:39:32AM -0700, Dennis Peterson wrote: Zvi Kave wrote: Why ClamAV has significally small number of known viruses in comparison to other AV software ? There's only a small number of viruses in the wild. MS-DOS viruses from 10 years ago are not likely to pose a

Re: [Clamav-users] Small number of ClamAV known viruses ?

2006-07-18 Thread Maurice Lucas
On Tue, 2006-07-18 at 07:39 -0700, Dennis Peterson wrote: Zvi Kave wrote: Why ClamAV has significally small number of known viruses in comparison to other AV software ? There's only a small number of viruses in the wild. MS-DOS viruses from 10 years ago are not likely to pose a problem