Sean Tempesta said: > 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. > > Questions: > 1. Project Status: > a) Is this project being actively developed, or has it been > primarily bug fixes in recent times? (past 6 months)
Well, once you get to the point where a virus scanne ris scanning virii - is there anywhere else to go? New signatures are added almost daily. Bug fixes are regular. A new "release" version should be coming along real-soon-now. > > b) If the project is actively being developed, what important > advances have occurred in the last year? Er. It's scanning for virii. It does what it's supposed to do. Is there more? > > 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? I'm using it in multiple production environments. Even though, technically, it's not reccomended at this stage of development. > 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!) For the three companies i'm using it for, it's been mint. I use SpamAssasin after mail is accepted, but ClamAV is being used in Exim/Exiscan to reject virii at the SMTP conversation level - ie they never even get accepted to my system. The difference being - a virus is rarely a false positive, and giving the sending smtp server positive indication of this is a Good Thing. Spam, however, is subjective, and the i've elected to allow spam-positives to flow through to the destination user, with tags. HTH! SUndie... ------------------------------------------------------- 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
