On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 08:34:48PM +0200, Martin Konold wrote: > The problem with bittorent is that bittorent addresses a different problem > domain. > > clamav pattern update: > - frequently changing small number of small files distributed from a single > point to many > > bittorrent: > - slowly changing high number of potentially very big files distributed from > many sources to many destinations.
This isn't correct. You somehow confusingly assume all current bittorrent downloads are related? They are not. Each individual .torrent starts out as a one-to-many distribution. The nice thing about bittorrent is that practically immediately after a third client connects, it becomes a many-to-many transfer, utilising the available upload capacity of all clients. So each individual torrent you find on those popular websites that list all torrents, started as a single-point-to-many distribution. And the number of torrents available there isn't slowly changing, in fact, it's often changing way faster than new virus definitions are released :) The main difference is that most currently offered torrents comprise many megabytes, while a virus definition file would only be a few kilobytes. But that doesn't invalidate the protocol, certainly not with a high number of downloaders. If anyone has questions on how the bittorrent protocol works, there is quite a bit of info on the official website: http://www.bitconjurer.org/BitTorrent/ and there's a wiki FAQ: http://wiki.theory.org/index.php/BitTorrentFAQ -- #!perl -wpl # mmfppfmpmmpp mmpffm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> $p=3-2*/[^\W\dmpf_]/i;s.[a-z]{$p}.vec($f=join('',$p-1?chr(sub{$_[0]*9+$_[1]*3+ $_[2]}->(map{/p|f/i+/f/i}split//,$&)+97):qw(m p f)[map{((ord$&)%32-1)/$_%3}(9, 3,1)]),5,1)='`'lt$&;$f.eig; # Jan-Pieter Cornet ------------------------------------------------------- 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
