Not really sure what your implying, I offered up moving all the 3rd party signatures to the clamav submission interface, so they could be signed and distributed through all the entire freshclam mirror architecture. The offer still stands, but I haven't gotten any takers yet.
The UNOFFICIAL tag just indicates its not from the ClamAV repository. I guess we could change it to "please email the guy you got this from if it doesn't work". As that is all its really used for, got a word that works for your customers and doesn't result in messages to fix things I can't modify. As for a GPL patch freely distribution I'm not sure what your getting at, ClamAV is GPL patch it all you want. On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 11:54 AM, Dennis Peterson <denni...@inetnw.com> wrote: > Steve Basford wrote: > >> The Sanesecurity signatures are double-checked before uploading with >> clamscan... they are also gpg signed and have a sha256 checksum file also >> available... so their integrity should be ok at both ends. As you say, >> the databases load ok... the problem seems when the database re-loads. >> > > Sorry for a bit of thread hijacking which follows: > > On a sidebar subject and not directed at Steve and his great work, but > SourceFire - I'm tired of explaining to customers why some bounces claim the > virus ID is "unofficial". I've removed that from the code because in my data > center any signature I put in there is "OFFICIAL!!!!!". I really don't like to > share ownership of processes including classifying my contributions to the end > result. This "UNOFFICIAL" nonsense should be a config file option that we > apply > in the field, not at compile time. > > And I will fight to the end to take back this ownership even if it means > writing > and maintaining a GPL patch freely distributable to all! > > dp > _______________________________________________ > Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net > http://www.clamav.net/support/ml > -- Matthew Watchinski Sr. Director Vulnerability Research Team (VRT) Sourcefire, Inc. Office: 410-423-1928 http://vrt-sourcefire.blogspot.com && http://www.snort.org/vrt/ _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://www.clamav.net/support/ml
