[clamav-users] CVD database

2013-01-28 Thread Kaushik Vaidyanathan
Hi Can someone help me understand what each cvd file(main, daily, safebrowsing and bytecode) capture? I am interested in understanding how the signature counts have been increasing over the years. How can I go about coming up with the total number of signatures clamav would use during its scan? t

Re: [clamav-users] CVD database

2013-01-28 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2013-01-28 at 10:41 -0800, Kaushik Vaidyanathan wrote: > Hi > > Can someone help me understand what each cvd file(main, daily, safebrowsing > and bytecode) capture? I am interested in understanding how the signature > counts have been increasing over the years. How can I go about coming up

Re: [clamav-users] CVD database

2013-01-28 Thread Al Varnell
On 1/28/13 10:41 AM, "Kaushik Vaidyanathan" wrote: > Hi > > Can someone help me understand what each cvd file(main, daily, safebrowsing > and bytecode) capture? The main and daily files serve essentially the same purpose. When the daily gets to be too large for efficient distribution, it is ad

Re: [clamav-users] How to pick / specify the correct mirror

2013-01-28 Thread Benny Pedersen
Jim Preston skrev den 26-01-2013 03:39: I am using freshclam but NOT running it as a daemon. Here is my cron task: 10 * * * * /usr/local/bin/freshclam >/dev/null 2>&1 this will be hardcoded time checks, not a fail if one can live with that So as far as I understand, I am using freshcl

Re: [clamav-users] Old Ubuntu manual updating

2013-01-28 Thread Benny Pedersen
bigbikerd...@gmail.com skrev den 27-01-2013 00:11: I am using ubuntu 10.10 (best one) but at it's end of life. good, its like gentoo devs that remove dovecot 1.x in portage before wiki.dovecot.org is removed :=) I want to continue to use latest clamav engine and databases manually. Like th

Re: [clamav-users] CVD database

2013-01-28 Thread Kaushik Vaidyanathan
Thanks Al. That helps a lot in understanding what each .cvd file is and how it gets used. On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 11:53 AM, Al Varnell wrote: > On 1/28/13 10:41 AM, "Kaushik Vaidyanathan" wrote: > > > Hi > > > > Can someone help me understand what each cvd file(main, daily, > safebrowsing > >

Re: [clamav-users] How to pick / specify the correct mirror

2013-01-28 Thread Noel Jones
On 1/28/2013 2:27 PM, Benny Pedersen wrote: > if you used freshclam as a deamon it will update when dns is showing > new versions, not wait one hour or more in cron to get the newest > updates Incorrect. When you run freshclam as a daemon, the freshclam.conf specifies how many times per day to

Re: [clamav-users] How to pick / specify the correct mirror

2013-01-28 Thread McDonald, Dan
On 1/28/13 4:10 PM, "Noel Jones" wrote: > On 1/28/2013 2:27 PM, Benny Pedersen wrote: > >> if you used freshclam as a deamon it will update when dns is showing >> new versions, not wait one hour or more in cron to get the newest >> updates > > > Incorrect. > > When you run freshclam as a da

Re: [clamav-users] How to pick / specify the correct mirror

2013-01-28 Thread Dennis Peterson
Bill Landry's unofficial sigs script does it right by using a random function as an offset from cron time to actually initial a sig download. For those of us with a couple dozen or more systems this is a mirror-friendly way of not getting into lockstep with any fixed-offset scheme. Here is the

[clamav-users] how to run clamav through command prompt in windows OS

2013-01-28 Thread naresh n
Please can any body tell me is it possible to run calmav through command prompt in windows OS? If yes how to run? Thanks&Regards, Naresh ___ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://www.clamav.net/support/ml