>From a comp.os.linux.security posting from March 3, 2003: "However, use it [ClamAV] at your peril.
Clam AntiVirus uses the OpenAntivirus virus database. It is in an early development state and members of the OpenAntivirus group say that it should be regarded as a "toy" at present. It is not up-to-date and tests by the group using it have found that the database does not (yet) trap many ITW (in the wild) viruses. They have consistently told me that they have asked Clam Antivirus NOT to use their database in Clam Antivirus....." (found on Google groups - search for "clam antivirus" and "old rocker" should have this posting as the top result) Took a quick peek at Open Antivirus' page on SourceForge - the virus signature database they have there is dated back to May of 2002, so I'd be inclined to agree with the person who posted the above message to Usenet. Hope this helps. We just implemented F-Prot with Peter Lindemann's AV script this past week - we're averaging about 3000 viruses per day (mostly Sobig, with a sprinkling of Klez, Bugbear and other classics). Very happy with it so far - the price tag wasn't insignificant, but it was much less than it would have been for a commercial mail package with integrated virus scanning. Kirk. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Filip Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2003 4:50 PM To: Toby Reiter Subject: [xmail] Re: Clam AV? Hi, I have a collection from viruses my av-filter (linked on xmailserver.org) caught using f-prot. I compared clamav and f-prot on Linux RH 9 : #clamscan /var/MailRoot/filters/XM_Fprot_Filter/InfectedMessages/ Scanned files: 94 Infected files: 41 #f-prot /var/MailRoot/filters/XM_Fprot_Filter/InfectedMessages/ Files: 94 Infected: 92 Suspicious: 1 Any other experience or comment on this ? -- Fil. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
