On Sun, Mar 02, 2003 at 02:07:02AM +0100, Johannes Rohr wrote: > > [packing a virus detection program] > > amavis is already in Debian. It needs a third party virus scanner to > work. Also clamav is already in Debian. (I never heard of it > before.). So now I can choose either to abandon my one and only Debian > package or to continue supporting non-free software, although a free > alternative is in development.
To me it reads like that you are worried about _your_ _only_ Debian package If you care about the Debian project that put effort in other parts of the project. > > I just visited the clamav home page. They say they are using virus > data from openantivirus.org (of which I never heard before.). At > OpenAntivirus.org they refer to their own software as Alpha quality. I > don't know if this applies to both binaries and virus data. > > Well, I'm quite surprised that such an initiative as openantivirus.org > exists. I thought we would need production-quality viruses for > GNU/Linux first. But both under openvirus.org and freevirus.org I get > a "host not found". Hey folks, we're lagging behind! How can GNU/Linux > ever become ready for the desktop like that? ;-) > Time spent on viri, is time stolen from building software that sense. Imagine that someone sends you twenty frozen pizzas. Your servent puts all of then in the micro wave oven and expects you to eat them all. There is a whole family of E-mail client programs that when ever they see a script in a E-mail they start executing it. Those stupid programs are the default MUA on MS-Windows. Replacing the vicious E-mailers is the way to go to extinguish viri. > Johannes > Please don't take this personal. Geert Stappers
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