On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 at 14:39:51 +0100, Cedric Foll wrote: > I found that on the last db ml update: > ----- > Submission: 1006-web > Sender: Eugene Turovsky > Virus: dumaru > Added: No. Worm.Dumaru.Y found by newer version of ClamAV. > (...) > Submission: 1020-web > Sender: Xavier Beaudouin > Virus: MyDoom / Worm SCO.A > Added: No. Worm.SCO.A found even with 0.65-BugFixesFromCVS-20031123. > Folks, stop wasting our time, please! > ----- > > So 0.65 is deprecated ? > If it's the case it should be write on the website and the cvs version > we are suppose to use should be indicated too. > It's very unusual to use a cvs version of a program on a production > site. > When I try to promote ClamAV am I suppose to say: "don't waste your time > with a stable source, use the cvs instead, if you dl it the right day u > won't have problem with it" ? > > All the team really does a great job! Thanks at all but we need a more > clear information about bugfix. > Perhaps an annouce ml or a 'news' section on the website with all these > informations.
I ask "stop wasting our time" because not detecting known viruses is _not_ a problem of our database, so such samples should _not_ be submitted to our submission interface! Some of nondetections are due to non-standard format of bounces, so new features are continuously added; some are because of various non-standard, proprietary formats used by various MTAs. There are also misconfigurations in submitters' systems. I cannot stress it too much: IT'S NOT A DATABASE PROBLEM! It would be good if submitters try to scan a "real" file (not a mail message, but an extracted attachment) before submitting a sample. Such extraction can be done with utilities like mimedecode, mimencode, uudeview, ripmime, reformime etc. We spend plethora of time on processing submissions and I really feel more and more frustrated when every day I find many submissions containing viruses which ClamAV has been detecting for days, weeks, months! Due to such unneeded submissions, real threats are processed later than they could be! So it's also in users' interest not to send us unneeded samples. Not mentioning our private life suffering from lack of time. I see that at least some people read out announcements ;-) . Thanks for warm word. We appreciate your appreciation :-) . -- Tomasz Papszun SysAdm @ TP S.A. Lodz, Poland | And it's only [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.lodz.tpsa.pl/ | ones and zeros. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ClamAV.net/ A GPL virus scanner ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn _______________________________________________ Clamav-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/clamav-users
