Hello again: Erick Lopez Carreon escribio: > Hi Jason: > > I use ClamAv, is wirted in C and works well. > > You can find it in: > > http://www.konarski.edu.pl/~zolw/
the site looks down, try http://clamav.elektrapro.com/ -- Saludos, Germán I use Clamav in my company servers and looks good. Maybe we can help to mantain the virus dB i think.. bye --- Jason Lim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I can see your point on the performance problem. > I know openantivirus > is in > > Java, I wasn't terribly excited about that either. > I was more or less > > hoping for some kind of cross platform C code. > Many of the folks > involved > > with openantivirus have been/are involved with > amavis as well so on the > one > > had I would have expected more. On the other > hand, amavis was initially > > done in perl I think (which can also be quite > slow), thus the advent of > > amavisd which is great leap in the right > direction. > > Actually, on most of the servers we install, Java > isn't even installed at > all. So it just simply won't run. On the other hand, > perl usually is > included with most large distros (Debian, redhat, > etc.) > > > > > The two primary components of any virus scanner is > 1: the scanning > engine, > > and 2: the signiture database. I wouldn't mind > trying to help out an > open > > antivirus solutions, but beyond what I've already > said here, I just > don't > > know much about how they are written. I might be > able to solicity a > slight > > bit of assistence from some of the professors I > had at the Unviersity > while > > getting my CS degree and I suppose I might be able > to base some of it on > the > > open antivirus project, just convert it to c > instead.... > > > > hmmm, what do u have in mind? > > > > to tell the truth, I have no idea what the options > are regarding designing > a new antivirus product from scratch... that just > isn't my field of > expertise, and I have little experience with > antivirus/virus design as > well, so I can't say i'd know much about virii in > general. > > Of course, I usually suggest helping out an existing > project instead of > re-inventing the wheel, but in this case, the only > one that seems > available is Openantivirus, and it doesn't, IMHO, > appear very well > developed yet, and basing the project on Java, when > you know it will be > run on servers and such, doesn't seem like a very > good design decision. > > Perhaps there are other worthy projects that we are > not aware of yet? > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]