Jason Haar schrieb:
Ed Stover wrote:
I am just wondering about how long will a stable release be supported
before it get tossed? The sevenX version is no longer really functional
The good commercial AV typically have daily pattern updates, and monthly
engine updates. That corresponds just about right to ClamAV. The
*engines* need updating as new types of viruses *which have to be coded
for* emerge. You are probably asking for the impossible.
However... We also use Trend here, and I haven't touched the engine
(i.e. the binary and libraries) for over a year - and yet it's current
(i.e. todays) patterns still work and it still appears to catch
everything the Windows version does (of course - it misses a LOT that
ClamAV catches...) Sounds like they have pushed a lot of what other
vendors put into their engines into their patterns I'd guess...
Some vendors' scanners have a scriptable scan engine AFAIK. And most
vendors only have to support precompiled binaries on the win32 platform,
so they can provide _one_ updated scan engine binary. This just doesn't
work with ClamAV, distributed in source form and being compiled on x
platforms and (in part optionally) relying on a bunch of 3rd party
libraries.
Thomas
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