Anyone here use clamav?

Preston Crawford me at prestoncrawford.com
Tue Mar 23 17:59:48 UTC 2004


On Tue, 2004-03-23 at 09:53, Richard Welty wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Mar 2004 09:40:37 -0800 Preston Crawford <me at prestoncrawford.com> wrote:
> > In the version for Fedora that I run (I know, they all should be the
> > same) there is no "freshclam" utility for updating the virus
> > definitions. Does anyone know why this is?
> 
> i scarfed up the clam rpms the other day. there were two sets
> i could see for clamav, one based on 0.65 (bad) and one
> based on the much more recent 0.68-1:
> 
> clamav-db-0.68-1.rhfc1.dag
> clamd-0.68-1.rhfc1.dag
> clamav-0.68-1.rhfc1.dag
> 
> i don't recommend using a 0.65 based rpms, there is a known
> DOS against 0.66 and older (i may be somewhat sensitizied
> to this, as i spent part of last saturday cleaning up the mess
> after a DOS against a server running 0.60.)
> 
> anyway, freshclam is most assuredly included in that particular
> set of rpms.


Where did you get those? My yum servers only have 0.65.

Preston






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