Rajanikanth P wrote the following on 08/21/2004 12:31 AM :
Hello D.J. Fan,
But i have a problem here. Assume that clam updates are published at 6:10 Pm. I check for new updates at 6:05 so the next time i gonna check is at 7:05 it just means that after 55 mins i got the updates. And within this 55 minutes thousands and thousands of say ..a worm which is in wild arrives to my mailserver and clam does not detect it & it passes out what do i do ?
Do you realize that no antivirus can provide a signature until : - someone has witnessed an infection (or infection attempt), - reported it to the virus db maintainers, - the signature has been engineered - tested (no obvious false positives), - then finally publicly released ?
No matter how often you check for new sigs, you'll always have at least several hours between a new worm hits the Net and a signature comes to your local antivirus installation.
IMHO to the question : "What do I do ?" the most logical answer is : "explain to your users what a new virus is and how it is impossible to protect against them in the early hours no matter how much effort the antivirus guys put to the task". Then advise them to use more secure e-mail clients...
Regards,
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