Hi!
10-Янв-2005 18:38 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter J. Holzer) wrote to ClamAV users ML
<clamav-users@lists.clamav.net>:
>> This is one reason, why I will not mess myself with NT/XP, and from
>> Windows family prefer Win98, which I may handle outside it (from DOS).
PJH> OTOH, the Windows NT family has a functional privilege system, so if you
PJH> are a bit careful (i.e., work as a non-privileged user) the chance of
PJH> being infected is a lot lower.
If and when me will needed security reason, this is place for linux,
not for NT family.
>> PJH> Seriously: Setting up different ways of distribution costs time and
>> PJH> money. Distributing updates via mail has been discussed on this list
>> PJH> and it was determined that the cost would be prohibitive (to be fair,
>> Why? What and how much costs there?
PJH> Sending out daily (or sometimes even more frequent) updates per mail to
PJH> many thousands of people in a timely manner (i.e. within less than an
PJH> hour - the goal was to be faster than the polling method used by
PJH> freshclam at the that time) is not gratis. You need a fast server and a
PJH> lot of bandwidth.
(As I understand, each new daily.cvd is a collection of all previous
daily.cvd?) May be, this is another reason to revise updated files hierarhy?
Let me remind Dr.Web's architecture: there is main database (4.32 - 997k;
ie. much higher compressed, than for ClamAV) and weekly updates (each 7-15k
in size), which are independent each other (ie. they are placed in one
directory and not replace one by other). I think, 15k/week (read: 2k/day)
requires not too much bandwith (this letter is more in size). This is just
suggestion.
>> PJH> 2) You don't need freshclam to do the updates, but if you update
>> PJH> manually, you also have to restart clamd and check for errors
>> PJH> manually.
>> Which "errors"?
PJH> You may retrieve a partial or garbled database file.
Sounds reasonable and not unexpected. BTW, does this mean, that
freshclam duplicates part of clamd functionality (by downloading base into
temorary file, then checking base integrity, to moving base at it target
place)?
PJH> Or maybe you get the updates in the wrong order ...
Same as above - this not frighten me. :) I just hope, that there _is_
protection in clamd against broken and "unordered" bases.
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