On Wed, 3 Mar 2004, Rembrandt wrote: [...] > 2. > Are there any improvemts planed wich enable clamAV to clean files? Now > it just delete them. > I can't speak for anyone but myself, but I don't think that is planned. First of all, some virii may be impossible to clean (some of them destroy the files they infect). Second, some files may be *very* hard to clean since the virii rewrite the binary in order to insert itself and figuring out what the file looked like prior to infection is *not* trivial, so it's a hard problem and to do it requires a lot of time and often specific handling of each individual virus. Third, would you trust a file after it was "cleaned"? Personally I would not - no matter who cleaned it; clam or some commercial AV vendor doesn't matter, I still wouldn't trust that file. If an infected file is found, the only proper action in my oppinion is to delete the file and then restore a known-good copy from original media or backup.
> 3. > Please don't make a flamewar (!!!!) but: > > Why GPL? > I think clamAV could also use a more free license like the BSD-license > couse nobody steals something from clamAV. And the reason is easy: All > other commercial scanners detects more virii/worms and they could also > clean the most files. So why GPL and not BSD-License? > I think with the BSD-License clamAV could be more acceptable for more > people. Not just all current BSD-OSs (NetBSD, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, MirBSD, > MicroBSD...). There much more people wich prefer > BSD-Licensed code and wich strictly against GPL (such as Plan9 and other > OSs). > Again, I can only answer this from my own personal point of view - I didn't write the original code so I did not deside the license. My /personal/ oppinion is that the GPL is a better license than the BSD license since it ensures that modifications are contributed back to the ClamAV community. With a BSD license nothing stops someone from incorporating ClamAV in a commercial product without giving anything back. But, that's just my personal oppinion. Hope that was properly flame-proof ;-) -- Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Systems Administrator, Danmarks Idręts-Forbund / The Danish Sports Federation Please don't top-post http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/T/top-post.html Please send plain text emails only http://www.expita.com/nomime.html ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net is sponsored by: Speed Start Your Linux Apps Now. Build and deploy apps & Web services for Linux with a free DVD software kit from IBM. Click Now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id56&alloc_id438&op=click _______________________________________________ Clamav-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/clamav-users
