On Thu, 2 Feb 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The company I work for has implemented a firewall that only allows certain > activity through it. I have requested that the user agent string > "clamav/*" be allowed to communicate with the internet. The request has > been refused because of security concerns. The approving authority is > concerned that there does not appear to be any way of verifying that the > web site the database is being downloaded from is the official site. The
The virus db file is signed, that is how it maintains integrity. The official sites could be compromised, using that as your check is someone of false security. However there is no 'official' site, there is an every growing and changing system of mirrors. ========================================================== Chris Candreva -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- (914) 967-7816 WestNet Internet Services of Westchester http://www.westnet.com/ _______________________________________________ http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html
