On 5/13/10 11:46 PM, Török Edwin wrote:
On 05/14/2010 08:19 AM, Jason Haar wrote:
On 05/14/2010 02:52 PM, Dennis Peterson wrote:
On 5/13/10 7:10 PM, Jason Haar wrote:
Why is Sourcefire allowing a third-party to use their brandname (and
linking to their site) when it doesn't use ClamAV code itself? It
supports other AV vendor products, but not the product it gets its name
from?!?!?!? Huh!?!??
ClamAV and Immunet are in a partnership.
http://www.clamav.net/lang/en/about/win32/
Thanks - but it says
"Immunet placed ClamAV into their Cloud infrastructure alongside their
Ethos detection engine, and several other detection technologies"
That implied to me they were using ClamAV's engine
They are, in the cloud.
And the FAQ says:
"The current roadmap includes adding ClamAV 0.96 to the local system so
that it can be used for offline scanning (without an Internet connection)"
Here's something else Immunet said:
“What the antivirus industry is shifting toward is a data-mining problem more
than an analysis problem,” Immunet’s Friedrichs says. “There are so many threats
today that an analyst cannot analyze them all, so we are using data-mining
techniques to find the needles in the haystack.”
http://unsafebits.com/2009/10/01/antivirus-firms-look-to-solidify-cloud-model/
I think that data mining is one of the things we try to prevent with tools such
as AV. I'd like to know more about what they do with all the needles they find.
dp
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