Re: [Clamav-users] Downloading clam virus definition files automatically

2004-08-26 Thread B. van Ouwerkerk
All parties are willing and agreeable, and the vendor stands to make some money. I can't imagine that would be a bad thing. I wouldn't underestimate the importance of liability, tho. Uhhh... but then what do you think someone providing such service would be liable for then? Unable to download

RE: [Clamav-users] Second-tier Mirrors...

2004-08-26 Thread Mitch \(WebCob\)
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Graham > Toal > > Aren't we missing something obvious here? Shouldn't we be using some > sort of distributed technology like BitTorrent? > That's been asked and answered... Bittorrent is meant to optimi

Re: [Clamav-users] Second-tier Mirrors...

2004-08-26 Thread Lionel Bouton
Mitch (WebCob) wrote the following on 08/26/2004 10:47 AM : -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Graham Toal Aren't we missing something obvious here? Shouldn't we be using some sort of distributed technology like BitTorrent? That's been as

RE: [Clamav-users] Second-tier Mirrors...

2004-08-26 Thread Matthew Keller
On Wed, 2004-08-25 at 16:28, Mitch (WebCob) wrote: <..snip..> > Perhaps (not sure of the DNS system in place) could be arranged so that 10% > of the requests a full primary mirror receives could be directed to a > secondary level mirror. With a committment of only roughly 10GB per month, > we'd get

Re: [Clamav-users] Downloading clam virus definition files automatically

2004-08-26 Thread Dennis Peterson
B. van Ouwerkerk said: > >> >>All parties are willing and agreeable, and the vendor stands to make some >>money. I can't imagine that would be a bad thing. I wouldn't >> underestimate >>the importance of liability, tho. > > Uhhh... but then what do you think someone providing such service would be

Re: [Clamav-users] Downloading clam virus definition files automatically

2004-08-26 Thread B. van Ouwerkerk
> If you want to be able to sue someone then why don't you use a product > like > Symantec Corporate edition, or from any other large vendor? I don't want to sue someone - I just like being protected against those who do, and there are a lot of them out there. That's why you pay so much for insura

[Clamav-users] Question

2004-08-26 Thread Ovidiu Bivolaru
Hi, I'm using ClamAV 0.75.1 and I encounter one of the Oversized.zip issues. I've read a few threads about this issue and I've learned that maxcompressionratio could be 200 ~ 99.5% compression. I have a zip file which reports a compression ratio of 466. Is this possible ? bash-2.05b$ clamscan

RE: [Clamav-users] Downloading clam virus definition files automatically

2004-08-26 Thread Shayne Lebrun
> Uhhh... but then what do you think someone providing such service > would be > liable for then? Unable to download an update? Or not being > updated as soon > as an update arrives? > Pretty hard one because you connection might be temporarily down, a > temporarily routing problem might exist some

[Clamav-users] libcurl support in latest ClamAV

2004-08-26 Thread Brett Simpson
I noticed the libcurl support to follow urls. I tried setting up a test by sending myself an email with a link to a virus on a test web server but it doesn't pick up there's a virus. I have curl-devel installed and when I compiled clamav it picked up that I had libcurl. Is this still very Alpha

RE: [Clamav-users] Downloading clam virus definition files automatically

2004-08-26 Thread Mitch \(WebCob\)
> I think such a provider would be liable for very little - but it is very > expensive to establish that in court. Law suits are trivial to initiate > and we are in a very litigous society. If you have 10,000 customers you > can bet at least one of them will levy a suit against you for some > perce

[Clamav-users] Siggen -- small tool to (hopefully) aid someone :)

2004-08-26 Thread Daniel Lord
Hi List, just put something together to aid me in generating signatures for my database. Perhaps someone likes it. Just use your favorit hex editor (vim :%!xxd) and get a good offset value. ./siggen virus.exe 0FF337 you get a 300 character signature which you (probably) have to cut a bit and gi

Re: [Clamav-users] Siggen -- small tool to (hopefully) aid someone :)

2004-08-26 Thread Tomasz Kojm
On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 23:32:56 +0200 Daniel Lord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi List, > > just put something together to aid me in generating signatures > for my database. Perhaps someone likes it. Just use your favorit > hex editor (vim :%!xxd) and get a good offset value. > > ./siggen virus.ex

Re: [Clamav-users] postfix+clamav without amavisd-new

2004-08-26 Thread Ajay Sharma
Alex V. Kovirshin wrote: On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 07:39:20PM -0700, Ajay wrote: Hi, What are some other ways to get clamd support in postfix without using amavisd-new because I don't need all the features of amavisd-new. Hi. Try my script, it's simple. Hey, thanks your script is really straightfor

Re: [Clamav-users] libcurl support in latest ClamAV

2004-08-26 Thread Nigel Horne
On Thursday 26 Aug 2004 20:34, Brett Simpson wrote: > I noticed the libcurl support to follow urls. I tried setting up a test by sending > myself an email with a link to a virus on a test web server but it doesn't pick up > there's a virus. I have curl-devel installed and when I compiled clamav i