At 02:02 PM 1/12/2013, Pancho wrote:
Again I believe you are talking at cross purposes but regardless I
am entirely comfortable if you disagree with the suggestion I made.
As I mentioned to Joel, please feel free to throw it away.
Wow, you don't like any criticsm, don't you?
Seriously, whatev
Again I believe you are talking at cross purposes but regardless I am entirely
comfortable if you disagree with the suggestion I made.
As I mentioned to Joel, please feel free to throw it away.
Thanks
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From: clamav-users-boun...@lists.clamav.net
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In addition to having the same sentiments Joel has, I'd like to explain why
not displaying the name of the virus does not add any extra security for a
number of reasons:
1. Attackers can already "deduce" ClamAV's engine because it's opensource.
They have the blueprints. They already know how it wo
It is not an attack on ClamAV Joel - but I tell you what, delete the post if it
makes you happier.
Truly I'm sorry I wasted the effort trying to contribute, and you can relax
because I certainly won't again.
-Original Message-
From: clamav-users-boun...@lists.clamav.net
[mailto:clamav
So what you want is for us to change the millions of Names we have for Trojans
to match one of our competitors? So when people look up the open source
detection that we provide in our open signature format, they instead get
pointed to a competitor with closed proprietary detection?
Even leav
Hi - thanks to everyone for the replies. I have seen 2 replies now and it
may well be that I have not been clear enough because both are at cross
purposes.
Unfortunately I don't have further time to invest in this topic but I do
hope that someone at ClamAV sees value in the suggestions.
If not, w
"Pancho" wrote:
>While I understand the comment, it makes it risky I believe from a security
>perspective to tell users anything more than " file contains virus".
>
>I say this because if we find a virus and provide the message "file contains
>virus with name " then malicious users
>can effective
On 1/12/13 5:22 AM, Pancho wrote:
All in all for me there is a fairly compelling argument for going this route
so I thought I would put it out there to see what others think.
Kind regards
Ricki
Is there something about real-time day one virus outbreaks and US
government involvement that you se
Hi,
At http://www.clamav.net/lang/en/faq/faq-misc/ I found this:
Why is ClamAV calling the XXX virus with another name?
This usually happens when we add a signature before other AV vendors. No
well-known name is available at that moment so we
