> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Dennis > Peterson > > > Jeremy Kitchen wrote: > > On Tuesday 10 August 2004 02:41 pm, Damian Menscher wrote: > > [snip: using a program delivery to process update mailing list mails] > > > >>With sendmail, you could add to /etc/aliases something like: > >>clamav-updates | sigtool --add > > > > > > that's the ticket. > > > > > > And a cool little DOS tool. Nothing like a well-known email > address for a little > fun having. I imagine the blackhats will slam that rather quickly. >
The list can have a simple algorithm to filter any 'easy' or mnemotenic email address thats trying to subscribe. That way we can reduce the problem. In concern of cvd corruption because a malformed patches, I think that the updater could backup some old states of the sig file in order to have the posibility to downgrade without downloading sigs again (manually or something). In any case, the patch can always have a 'before MD5' and an 'after MD5', just to be sure. Another idea to save bandwidth (in a pull fashion) could be to download instead of: daily.cvd something like: daily.cvd?myver=XXX&MD5=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX Were _myver_ and _MD5_ are my sigfile's version and it's MD5 respectively. The server could make a patch to the last version in real time and send it, instead of sending the 'big' file. The realtime patch could be done cat'ing all patches needed together or already having created all the respective daily_fromN_toCURRENT.cvd patches. Could also be implemented directly into main.cvd. Brainstorming is great... as long as I don't have to code resulting ideas ;) Thanks to all for this great bits. -Samuel ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by Shop4tech.com-Lowest price on Blank Media 100pk Sonic DVD-R 4x for only $29 -100pk Sonic DVD+R for only $33 Save 50% off Retail on Ink & Toner - Free Shipping and Free Gift. http://www.shop4tech.com/z/Inkjet_Cartridges/9_108_r285 _______________________________________________ Clamav-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/clamav-users
