On 2005-01-07 22:22:56 +0300, Arkady V.Belousov wrote: > 7-???-2005 13:27 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jim Maul) wrote to ClamAV users ML > <clamav-users@lists.clamav.net>: > > JM> make it into a users mailbox. ClamAV is not intended to be run after > JM> the fact on an already infected machine. > JM> I really dont see what the issue is here. You appear to be in a rare > JM> situation > > Infected machine _isn't_ _rare_ situation.
No, but 1) I think real viruses which infect other programs are getting rare. I certainly can't remember when I've seen the last one :-) These days I see only worms and trojans, which are self-contained. Maybe the situation is different in Russia than it is here, but I don't see why it should be. 2) Your situation is rare among people who want to use ClamAV. Most people who consider ClamAV want to use it on a mail server which has internet access. I am aware that UUCP is still in use, and even some less connected ways of delivering mail (in some parts of India mail is delivered by bus), but so far there hasn't been much demand for non-internet methods of delivering updates. If you don't have internet access, maybe you should ask whether someone could mail the updates to you. > JM> and for this i feel your pain, but what you also seem to be > JM> doing is attempting to make a program fit where it was not designed. I > > Hm. There was promotions, that ClamAV is comparable to other commercial > _antiviruses_, and I, as free software preferer, was plan to use it as my > (main) antivirus on my home machine. Since ClamAV is advertised as "a GPL anti-virus toolkit for UNIX" (http://www.clamav.net/abstract.html), and there are no viruses for any Unix in the wild, it is pretty obvious that ClamAV was not designed to protect the machine it is running on, but to protect other machines. Like any good tool, ClamAV is used for tasks for which it wasn't designed. However, if you do that, you must be prepared to invest a little work by yourself, and can't expect everything to work out of the box. hp -- _ | Peter J. Holzer | Je höher der Norden, desto weniger wird |_|_) | Sysadmin WSR | überhaupt gesprochen, also auch kein Dialekt. | | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Hallig Gröde ist fast gänzlich dialektfrei. __/ | http://www.hjp.at/ | -- Hannes Petersen in desd
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