* Sean Tempesta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20031024 06:57]: wrote: > Dear ClamAV users, > > My name is Sean Tempesta and I am a graduate student at the University > of Missouri: Columbia. I am doing research on open source anti-viral > products and I wanted to ask a large user base what you thought about > ClamAV. If you wouldn't mind responding, I would really appreciate any > feedback since it will help me better understand this project.
Mine is Odhiambo Washington, a Systems Janitor for an ISP located just next to the great Rift Valley ;) Thank you. > > Questions: > 1. Project Status: > a) Is this project being actively developed, or has it been > primarily bug fixes in recent times? (past 6 months) Very very active!! There has been a lof of code improvements. Actually you should have gotten this answer yourself by downloading the source code and looking at the Changelog. FYI, almost all open source projects that I know of have a CHANGES/Changelog diary of what has been happening and it can form the basis of judging a project, not that it's all you need though. > b) If the project is actively being developed, what important > advances have occurred in the last year? See ChangeLog. For me, so much has been done in the overall code: improved ability to handle mail files (mbox) correctly, stabilization of the main code base and especially the clamd daemon have been outstanding. > 2. Proof or Concept? > a) Is the project geared toward theoretical anti-virus research as > OpenAntivirus is (http://www.openantivirus.org), or is it used in > production environments? As in theoretical means what here? ;) Since I haven't used OpenAV at all, I will not comment on it, but I use Clamav here in production environment where it handles... TOTAL Volume Messages Domains Edomains Delayed Failed Received 2243MB 51234 4757 8483 1972 3.8% 1182 2.3% Delivered 2886MB 60118 3180 4640 ..on average per day!!. > b) If the project is not just theoretical, what companies are using > ClamAV in production? (any comments on effectiveness or recommendations > on other products used in conjunction ie. spamassassin would be great!) We run an ISP and we use clamav and spamassassin. You could see http://www.wananchi.com/email/{av|stop-spam|extensions|demime} for what we do. Clamav is used in conjunction with Exiscan (http://duncanthrax.net/exiscan). SpamAssassin is used in the same setup (Exim+Clamav+SpamAssassin). On effectiveness, try sending spam/virus to my address and judge for yourself;) cu. -Wash http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html -- |\ _,,,---,,_ | Odhiambo Washington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Zzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ | Wananchi Online Ltd. www.wananchi.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-'| Tel: +254 20 313985-9 +254 20 313922 '---''(_/--' `-'\_) | GSM: +254 722 743223 +254 733 744121 + "We had it tough ... I had to get up at 9 o'clock at night, half an hour before I went to bed, eat a lump of dry poison, work 29 hours down mill, and when we came home our Dad would kill us, and dance about on our grave singing Haleleuia ..." -- Monty Python ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: The SF.net Donation Program. Do you like what SourceForge.net is doing for the Open Source Community? Make a contribution, and help us add new features and functionality. Click here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/ _______________________________________________ Clamav-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/clamav-users
