Hi there,

On Wed, 2 Apr 2008 sydz@ wrote:

> ... the developer of ClamXav admitted that he doesn't know how to
> write and add anti-virus definitions for ClamAV's database (which is
> what is used by ClamXav). And the ClamAV folks are not members of
> the alliance that the commercial Mac anti-virus application
> developers belong to, where, when they identify and aquire a copy of
> a new malware threat, they share it with each other in order to
> quickly analyze it and create new definitions for their respective
> products. So the ClamAV folks don't appear to have access to all
> existent Mac malware, which is a problem because most of it can be
> quite hard to find. As a result no one appears to be consistently
> adding new definitions for Mac malware to ClamAV's database.

http://www.clamav.org/sendvirus/

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73,
Ged.
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