On Tue, 2004-02-24 at 10:11, Simon Wong wrote:
> On Sat, 2004-02-07 at 13:08, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> > Use amavisd-new and clamav-daemon together. Great combo.
> 
> The most critical thing about virus scanners is the virus definitions -
> how correct they are and the timeliness that they are updated.

Not exactly on-thread but I thought I'd share an idea I had about this.
It won't improve the quality of the central database, but it might help
save a couple of hours of infected email on a busy server.

So there's a clamav-virusdb mailing list that sends emails when the
virus-db is updated. The idea was just to setup procmail to catch posts
to that mailing list and run freshclam every time there's a new virus
sig posted. I can't justify the bandwidth expenses for the number of
virus emails I get, but on a big server it might help stop an infection
before it starts in your network.

James.


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