Chris, I totally agree, I actually have a copy of about 15,000 viruses that I got from a friend of mine... most of which clam doesn't detect, the only problem I have is I need an automated way to generate the sigs.
Sigtool (i think its called) isn't that clever at the moment, the second it can grab patterns... i'll be contributing ALOT!, btw, patternFinder is a java prog and our high end server distro doesn't at present support running of this type of app :( -NIgel On 1 Apr 2003, Chris van Meerendonk wrote: > This is not an answer to your question, sorry for that... > We've created a setup which scans with a commercial scanner and also > with ClamAV. Whenever our commercial scanner finds a virus that ClamAV > doesn't recognize we automaticaly 'contribute' it to ClamAV. This way > ClamAV hopefully 'learns' the lates virussess in a short time. It would > be nice if more people could create such a setup since we don't get all > virussess... > > Regards, > > Chris > > On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 14:10, Magnus Sundberg wrote: > > Hi, > > I while ago, I read an article that stated that opensource anti-virus > > scanners did not catch any of the recent viruses. > > From scanning the archive this seems to not be true. > > Does anybody know of any comparisons between Clam anti virus and other > > commercial solutions? > > What is your subjective opinion? > > > > /Magnus > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Nigel Kukard (Chief Executive Officer) Lando Technologies Africa (Pty) Ltd [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.lando.co.za Tel: 083 399 5822 Fax: 086 1100036 Hoheisen Park Bellville, Cape Town National Internet Service Provider The best language to use is the language that was designed for what you want to use it for - 1997 ===================================================================== Disclaimer ---------- The contents of this message and any attachments are intended solely for the addressee's use and may be legally privileged and/or confidential information. This message may not be retained, distributed, copied or used if you are not he addressee of this message. If this message was sent to you in error, please notify the sender immediately by reply e-mail and then destroy the message and any copies thereof. Opinions, conclusions and other information in this message may be personal to the sender and is not that of Lando Technologies Africa or any of it's subsideries, associated companies or principals and is therefore not endorsed by any of the Lando groups of companies. Due to e-maill communication being insecure, Lando groups of companies do not guarantee confidentiality, security, accuracy or performance of the e-mail. Any liability for viruses is excluded to the fullest extent. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]