Hello Nigel, first of all I want to say that I fully hope for the intended success of the clamav/freshclam virus info acquisition project as described in your clam-av.blogspot.com blot entry. This reply negates the reply I had planned after attempting to be: the-first-to-comment on your blog entry at clam-av.blogspot.com (as alluded to below). The attempt and failure to post a comment about: clam-av.blogsopt.com and your blog entry about the new freshclam driven virus data acquisition project is the crux of what I had planned to say but now: not needed. In essence I had planned my comment as follows: ...all the data and information acquisition in the world has no value or meaning without some process that can: analyze, categorize, sort and execution based on the target information. Case-in-point: my interest in ClamAV. Reason for interest: I am myself a victim of browser hijacking and at least one internet/email based identity theft. When I discovered that my PC based TrendMi cro only works intermittently and allowed a very nasty browser hijacking .dll to enter my Windows box system I set a target goal to: do-whatever-it-takes to prevent any such future attacks. This is where I am now with my quest: an attempt to post a comment at: clam-av.blogspot.com. This attempt fails because of technological issues beyond the control or beyond the capabilities of the user. The user in this case of course is myself. To successfully post a blog at: clam-av.blogspot.com the user needs an OPENID with an accepted url. The only OPENID url I have is: http://technorati.com. According to the OPENID folks the technorati.com url should be sufficient. The results returned from: clam-av.blogspot.com indicate the technorati.com url as both unnecessary and insufficient for the purposes of: OPENID.
I apologize for the rant stated above but as usual rants are the result of some human frustration that cannot be resolved with logic or some type of: follow-the-instructions or even a good-ol' RTFM. The inability to do something as simple as posting a comment on a blog admittedly must appear trivial if not insignificant by most folks. Notwithstanding, I still feel that even the small gotchas are as inhibiting and destructive as the much larger and more significant hitches-in-the-git-a-long. For technologies to survive, develop and expand many people need to be involved. A categorization of the type of folks needed for any given technology: gurus, experts, capable users, users, those-who-are-only-mildly-interested. I have nearly 20 years of networking and internet based computing experience as a professional. Most, if not all of the experience described in the previous sentence has been in a Unix or Linux based environment. Other types of computing environments other than those just list have been used strictly as client machines. None-the-less, I do not consider myself as any type of expert on nearly 100% of all technologies that can be found on the internet today. At best I might say that I am a capable user within the area of: tcp/ip, networking, routing, fire-walling (netfilter), almost anything written in ANSI C, dns (named), web servers (httpd), email (smtpd). Yet, without help from bonafide experts in the previously mentioned technologies I would be at a complete loss as to howto: configure, build and deploy most technologies that are vital to the thin internet gateway I have built for myself. I am on the verge of losing this gateway if I am not able to find a sufficient and nece ssary system of protections that are manageable by a sufficiently capable user. It is my hope that ClamAV integrated with Squid-cache and ICAP may help me attain the lofty goal of intrusion detection via: smtp, http, ftp and whatever other protocol that has been compromised for the purposes of evil. Regards, David. Nigel Horne wrote .. > Folks, > > We've just added an entry to the blog at clam-av.blogspot.com which > covers the new statistics system. > > The article gives some background information, what we've published to > date and what we hope to do in the future. It also covers why you should > consider submitting data and how to do so. > > All suggestions for future blog entries are welcome - please let me know > any ideas you have. > > -Nigel > > -- > Nigel Horne, nigel.ho...@sourcefire.com > Director of Product Management (ClamAV), Sourcefire, > http://www.sourcefire.com > +1 301 518 7944 or +1 706 705 4022 FAX: +44 870 705 9334 ICQ: 20252325 > > ClamAV is a registered trademark of Sourcefire Inc. > _______________________________________________ > Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net > http://www.clamav.net/support/ml
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