Re: [Clamav-users] type of viruses being added to database

2004-01-13 Thread Tomasz Papszun
On Mon, 12 Jan 2004 at 13:20:45 -0500, jef moskot wrote: On Mon, 12 Jan 2004, Tomasz Papszun wrote: Added are viruses which users submitted to us :-) . Or found by us. Well, yes, obviously, but could you maybe take a recent representative update and give us an idea of what the added

Re: [Clamav-users] type of viruses being added to database

2004-01-13 Thread Tomasz Papszun
On Mon, 12 Jan 2004 at 13:56:47 -0500, jef moskot wrote: On Mon, 12 Jan 2004, Daniel J McDonald wrote: are you on the clamav-virusdb mailing list? Yes, but it doesn't say whether the viruses are old or new, and looking them up given the various names used and the quantity of updates is not

Re: [Clamav-users] type of viruses being added to database

2004-01-12 Thread Tomasz Papszun
On Sun, 11 Jan 2004 at 16:45:30 -0500, jef moskot wrote: Out of curiosity, what sort of viruses are typically being added to the database? Are they mostly new viruses? Added are viruses which users submitted to us :-) . Or found by us. Of course we add new viruses as quickly as possible

Re: [Clamav-users] type of viruses being added to database

2004-01-12 Thread Peter Bonivart
Are you subscribed to clamav-virusdb? If not, try that first. /Peter Bonivart --Unix lovers do it in the Sun Sun Fire V210, Solaris 9, Sendmail 8.12.10, MailScanner 4.25-14, SpamAssassin 2.61 + DCC 1.2.21, ClamAV 0.65 + GMP jef moskot wrote: Well, yes, obviously, but could you maybe take a

Re: [Clamav-users] type of viruses being added to database

2004-01-12 Thread Daniel J McDonald
On Mon, 2004-01-12 at 12:20, jef moskot wrote: On Mon, 12 Jan 2004, Tomasz Papszun wrote: Added are viruses which users submitted to us :-) . Or found by us. Well, yes, obviously, but could you maybe take a recent representative update and give us an idea of what the added viruses are

Re: [Clamav-users] type of viruses being added to database

2004-01-12 Thread jef moskot
On Mon, 12 Jan 2004, Daniel J McDonald wrote: are you on the clamav-virusdb mailing list? Yes, but it doesn't say whether the viruses are old or new, and looking them up given the various names used and the quantity of updates is not very convenient. Tomasz Kojm sent out an update on Saturday

Re: [Clamav-users] type of viruses being added to database

2004-01-12 Thread Denis De Messemacker
On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 01:56:47PM -0500, jef moskot wrote : [...] Thanks, that puts things into a little perspective. I'm really just looking for a GENERAL idea. For example, if you had to explain to the average user what sort of viruses were being added to the database...is it MOSTLY

Re: [Clamav-users] type of viruses being added to database

2004-01-12 Thread c2o Technical Support
At 11:02 AM 12/01/04, Flinn Mueller wrote: Maybe a browsable virus database would be in order. Something ala http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/. The description data from sendvirus.cgi would need to go right in there. Anyone working on something like this already? Even making

Re: [Clamav-users] type of viruses being added to database

2004-01-12 Thread Thomas Lamy
c2o Technical Support wrote: At 11:02 AM 12/01/04, Flinn Mueller wrote: Maybe a browsable virus database would be in order. Something ala http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/. The description data from sendvirus.cgi would need to go right in there. Anyone working on something

Re: [Clamav-users] type of viruses being added to database

2004-01-12 Thread jef moskot
On Mon, 12 Jan 2004, Denis De Messemacker wrote: In conclusion, and to answer your question, we receive actually a majority of current worms,trojans and viruses that are still in activity. Those are analysed on a fifo base. At any time, if fast spreading new virus is received, it preempts the

Re: [Clamav-users] type of viruses being added to database

2004-01-12 Thread jef moskot
I don't see any reason to re-invent the wheel. If there are no legal or technical problems with linking to another commercial site, I think it makes more sense to just add an URL to our list, as opposed to generating fresh content for thousands of entries. Jeffrey Moskot System Administrator

Re: [Clamav-users] type of viruses being added to database

2004-01-12 Thread Flinn Mueller
On Jan 12, 2004, at 7:48 PM, jef moskot wrote: I don't see any reason to re-invent the wheel. If there are no legal or technical problems with linking to another commercial site, I think it makes more sense to just add an URL to our list, as opposed to generating fresh content for thousands of

Re: [Clamav-users] type of viruses being added to database

2004-01-12 Thread c2o Technical Support
Heya, At 01:27 PM 13/01/04, you wrote: I don't see any reason to re-invent the wheel. If there are no legal or technical problems with linking to another commercial site, I think it makes more sense to just add an URL to our list, as opposed to generating fresh content for thousands of

[Clamav-users] type of viruses being added to database

2004-01-11 Thread jef moskot
Out of curiosity, what sort of viruses are typically being added to the database? Are they mostly new viruses? Sometimes it's obvious when a user has submitted a large library of old viruses, but in general it's tough to tell whether the latest crop of updates have been recently discovered or if

Re: [Clamav-users] type of viruses being added to database

2004-01-11 Thread Flinn Mueller
Maybe a browsable virus database would be in order. Something ala http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/. The description data from sendvirus.cgi would need to go right in there. Anyone working on something like this already? Even making accepting a link to a commercial av's db