Update on ClamAV

Got the "freshclam" updater working.
Pretty simple actually.  Just browse one of the mirrors for the db
updates - see http://www.clamav.net/mirrors.html for a list -

Pick one of them - say - http://clamav.sonic.net/database/  -
download the .md5 files to your virus db folder
(eg  c:\clamav-devel\share\clamav\ )

I got all of them while I was there just in case.

Then go to c:\clamav-devel\bin and run freshclam from cmd line and it
should update.

See freshclam --help for more. You can run it as a daemon. There is a
..conf file.

Results are pretty decent for me once I got the virus db updated.
Basically ClamAv is catching everything so far that f-prot is
catching.

You can create our own virus signatures, too.  If you don't want to
wait on someone else.  There is also a web page to report viruses:
http://www.nervous.it/~nervous/cgi-bin/sendvirus.cgi

Pretty nice really for a "free" additional scanner.

Terry Fritts


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