> In any case, Clam is a user supported project. ALL viruses are submitted > by > end users. So, the only way response will get any better is if you submit > new viruses you receive that get by clam. > > It's not going to 'improve' any other way.
Well, that'd be my assumption as well. What I'm poking for is the potential for a means of making the process more formalized, like having a team of officials per continent who volunteer to be on the spot for given hours of the day? Are [vendor] forums where outbreaks are discussed? Does anyone watch releases from the major vendors to be able to develop signatures for ClamAV? Things like this have probably been mentioned before, I suppose. If ClamAV is to compete with companies who do nothing but develop virus signatures, I would think we'd have to find a way of tapping into the same resources or methodology somehow. Timing is everything -- we don't have to be the first, but we have to beat the outbreak. I'm not saying I have the answers or that there's a panacea for the problem, but when gigs of mail server storage is consumed and hundreds of users are run over their quota (and thus lose subsequent email), that's a problem that makes managers want to buy AV licenses. John -- John Madden UNIX Systems Engineer Ivy Tech State College [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ http://lists.clamav.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/clamav-users
