This thread on Trojan.JS.RunMe had me thinking: Hourly virus updates is better than any of the commercial virus scanners, but obviously still has issues, especially since a bunch of us obviously submitted updates that had already been entered. I gather from these posts that the virusdb's actually have some form of version number.
Suppose there was a DNS entry, say virusdb.clamav.net (or version.virusdb.clamav.net, etc), that returned simply a text record with the current DB version in it. Then, it would be possible to check the version with a relatively cheap single UDP packet, rather than a full http check, and people could check for DB updates more often than once an hour without taxing the distribution system. If nothing else, if this TXT record existing we could hack together some shell script to check it and run freshclam as needed. Just a thought. ========================================================== Chris Candreva -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- (914) 967-7816 WestNet Internet Services of Westchester http://www.westnet.com/ ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by Shop4tech.com-Lowest price on Blank Media 100pk Sonic DVD-R 4x for only $29 -100pk Sonic DVD+R for only $33 Save 50% off Retail on Ink & Toner - Free Shipping and Free Gift. http://www.shop4tech.com/z/Inkjet_Cartridges/9_108_r285 _______________________________________________ Clamav-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/clamav-users
