On Fri, 27 Jun 2003, Johannes Erdfelt wrote: > You make lots of good points, but I don't think they really apply. I > don't think anyone is asking to put these features into clamav. I would > just like to see some metadata in there so systems that build on clamav > can make more intelligent decisions.
I would like to see more time put into decreasing the network overhead to freshclam first. Such as distributing the database in bzip2 or gzip format and making freshclam responsible for decompressing it. Any modification to the viruses.db requires that an user connected via modem spend 11 minutes to download the update instead of 4 minutes. I would also like to see a set of approx 10 diff files organized by the serial number of the database they intend to modify to the current version. So, if someone has viruses.db serial #232 and the latest viruses.db has serial #260 with 21 new virus signatures and 1 incorrect signature removed then freshclam would download viruses232.db.bz2 which would presently have only 22 diff lines instead of around 8,000 lines. Tomorrow, viruses232.db.bz2 might be updated to contain 26 new virus sigs and 1 sig removal but the user that just updated yesterday would only have to get viruses260.db.bz2 which would only have the 5 new virus sigs to get up to the latest database. Only if freshclam fails to get viruses[serial].db.bz2 has been removed (it has been over a week and the old serial diffs have been removed) should it download the full database. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
