Hi!
7-Янв-2005 07:08 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Daniel J McDonald) wrote to
ClamAV users ML <clamav-users@lists.clamav.net>:
>> >> >> "Fetch" from where (without online)? (BTW, updates for my
>> >> My English is poor, but me looks, that above is irony/sarcasm. Don't
>> >> understand, why online access should/must be only one way to receive
>> >> updates.
>> DJM> Well... clamav is usually used to protect e-mail. if you can break it
>> First: I myself mean, that _I_ receive updates and _I_ place them into
>> ClamAV directories (directly by hands or indirectly through my own utilities
>> and batch files/scripts).
DJM> That's fine - download them from the internet
How? Is there ftp? Is there email lists (which sends updated bases
directly, not only notification about "what new in last updated")? Is there
local (to me) BBSes?
DJM> and toss them on a web server,
Again. :( My machine have no web server runned and I doubt that it
will.
(Does this mean, that ClamAV developers suggest, that _all_ machines,
where ClamAV will work, - at home, at corporations, at Nuclear Plants -
should be internet-connected?)
DJM> run freshclam,
What does freshclam such, that I can't reproduce manually (for example,
by simple placing updated bases into ClamAV directories)?
DJM> and it's done. Don't want it exposed? Specify a
DJM> bizarre port and use apache to limit access to just that one file from
DJM> those specific machines. It ain't that tough. You could probably even
DJM> set up a server on knoppix or MandrakeMove with just a cdrom.
>> Second: why you think, that ClamAV can't trust connection through
>> mails, but may trust online access (which may be deceipted by hacked DNS and
>> other services)?
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DJM> Freshclam does other things, like inform clamd that new signatures are
DJM> available.
Aren't virus base files self-contained? With all need information about
signatures inside them?
DJM> So even if you were to set up a web-to-mail gateway, the
DJM> best way to deploy the files internally is to create a webserver, drop
DJM> the files on it, and then run freshclam pointing to your local
DJM> webserver.
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