RE: [Clamav-users] Downloading clam virus definition files automatically

2004-08-26 Thread Mitch \(WebCob\)
> I think such a provider would be liable for very little - but it is very > expensive to establish that in court. Law suits are trivial to initiate > and we are in a very litigous society. If you have 10,000 customers you > can bet at least one of them will levy a suit against you for some > perce

RE: [Clamav-users] Downloading clam virus definition files automatically

2004-08-26 Thread Shayne Lebrun
> Uhhh... but then what do you think someone providing such service > would be > liable for then? Unable to download an update? Or not being > updated as soon > as an update arrives? > Pretty hard one because you connection might be temporarily down, a > temporarily routing problem might exist some

Re: [Clamav-users] Downloading clam virus definition files automatically

2004-08-26 Thread B. van Ouwerkerk
> If you want to be able to sue someone then why don't you use a product > like > Symantec Corporate edition, or from any other large vendor? I don't want to sue someone - I just like being protected against those who do, and there are a lot of them out there. That's why you pay so much for insura

Re: [Clamav-users] Downloading clam virus definition files automatically

2004-08-26 Thread Dennis Peterson
B. van Ouwerkerk said: > >> >>All parties are willing and agreeable, and the vendor stands to make some >>money. I can't imagine that would be a bad thing. I wouldn't >> underestimate >>the importance of liability, tho. > > Uhhh... but then what do you think someone providing such service would be

Re: [Clamav-users] Downloading clam virus definition files automatically

2004-08-26 Thread B. van Ouwerkerk
All parties are willing and agreeable, and the vendor stands to make some money. I can't imagine that would be a bad thing. I wouldn't underestimate the importance of liability, tho. Uhhh... but then what do you think someone providing such service would be liable for then? Unable to download

Re: [Clamav-users] Downloading clam virus definition files automatically

2004-08-25 Thread Dennis Peterson
Fajar A. Nugraha wrote: Dennis Peterson wrote: Shayne Lebrun wrote: Any reason why that percentage should be less than 100? Cost of bandwidth, cost of equipment, and cost of administrating the purchase/access system? And liability insurance. Hmm ... which makes me wonder. Say ... 1) I host an offic

Re: [Clamav-users] Downloading clam virus definition files automatically

2004-08-25 Thread Damian Menscher
On Thu, 26 Aug 2004, Fajar A. Nugraha wrote: > 4) I setup atomated firewall system which automagically blocks > non-paying users which connects to my server too often (perhaps in less > 30 minutes interval). > > (4) might be a problem, since it might violate some requirements of > becoming a publi

RE: [Clamav-users] Downloading clam virus definition files automatically

2004-08-25 Thread Shayne Lebrun
> > Cost of bandwidth, cost of equipment, and cost of administrating the > > purchase/access system? > > > > And liability insurance. > Aye, good point. Especially if you're going to be hoping to sell to corporate clients. --- SF.Net email is

RE: [Clamav-users] Downloading clam virus definition files automatically

2004-08-25 Thread Shayne Lebrun
> > > Any reason why that percentage should be less than 100? > > > > > Cost of bandwidth, cost of equipment, and cost of administrating the > > purchase/access system? > > Welcome to the area of open source... > Open source is all well and good, but bandwidth still costs. -

Re: [Clamav-users] Downloading clam virus definition files automatically

2004-08-25 Thread Fajar A. Nugraha
Dennis Peterson wrote: Shayne Lebrun wrote: Any reason why that percentage should be less than 100? Cost of bandwidth, cost of equipment, and cost of administrating the purchase/access system? And liability insurance. Hmm ... which makes me wonder. Say ... 1) I host an official public mirror, which

Re: [Clamav-users] Downloading clam virus definition files automatically

2004-08-25 Thread Dennis Peterson
Nigel Horne wrote: On Wednesday 25 Aug 2004 12:09, Andy Fiddaman wrote: I'd be interested in running one of these if the database team would be willing to push updates out to a private mirror. (A percentage of the revenue generated would then be fed back into the ClamAV project!) Any reason why

Re: [Clamav-users] Downloading clam virus definition files automatically

2004-08-25 Thread Dennis Peterson
Shayne Lebrun wrote: Any reason why that percentage should be less than 100? Cost of bandwidth, cost of equipment, and cost of administrating the purchase/access system? And liability insurance. dp --- SF.Net email is sponsored by Shop4tech.com-Lo

RE: [Clamav-users] Downloading clam virus definition files automatically

2004-08-25 Thread Nigel Horne
> > Any reason why that percentage should be less than 100? > > > Cost of bandwidth, cost of equipment, and cost of administrating the > purchase/access system? Welcome to the area of open source... --- SF.Net email is sponsored by Shop4tech.c

Re: [Clamav-users] Downloading clam virus definition files automatically

2004-08-25 Thread B. van Ouwerkerk
Or, how about a subscription only (i.e. pay for) mirror which people can query every five minutes if they like ? Note that although you shouldn't, you CAN query any official mirror every minute if you want :) No mirror that I know of is able to prevent that. Yet. iptables/netfilter :-) So I would

Re: [Clamav-users] Downloading clam virus definition files automatically

2004-08-25 Thread Dennis Peterson
Julio Canto wrote: Or, how about a subscription only (i.e. pay for) mirror which people can query every five minutes if they like ? This has the advantage that users who require this don't have to do anything special (like set up an rsync server), just change the mirror they use and the interval

RE: [Clamav-users] Downloading clam virus definition files automatically

2004-08-25 Thread Andy Fiddaman
On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, Shayne Lebrun wrote: ; > Any reason why that percentage should be less than 100? ; > ; Cost of bandwidth, cost of equipment, and cost of administrating the ; purchase/access system? That about covers it. To be worth anything, the mirror farm would have to be able to support

RE: [Clamav-users] Downloading clam virus definition files automatically

2004-08-25 Thread Shayne Lebrun
> Any reason why that percentage should be less than 100? > Cost of bandwidth, cost of equipment, and cost of administrating the purchase/access system? --- SF.Net email is sponsored by Shop4tech.com-Lowest price on Blank Media 100pk Sonic DVD

Re: [Clamav-users] Downloading clam virus definition files automatically

2004-08-25 Thread Nigel Horne
On Wednesday 25 Aug 2004 12:09, Andy Fiddaman wrote: > I'd be interested in running one of these if the database team would be > willing to push updates out to a private mirror. (A percentage of the > revenue generated would then be fed back into the ClamAV project!) Any reason why that percenta

Re: [Clamav-users] Downloading clam virus definition files automatically

2004-08-25 Thread Julio Canto
Or, how about a subscription only (i.e. pay for) mirror which people can query every five minutes if they like ? This has the advantage that users who require this don't have to do anything special (like set up an rsync server), just change the mirror they use and the interval that freshclam runs.

Re: [Clamav-users] Downloading clam virus definition files automatically

2004-08-25 Thread Fajar A. Nugraha
Andy Fiddaman wrote: On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, Dennis Peterson wrote: ; > > The ClamAV ; > > vendor can offer a push of the AV patterns to paying customers with ; > > special needs. That way you will receive the updates as quickly as do the ; > > mirrors and the vendor recovers some of the cost of maint

Re: [Clamav-users] Downloading clam virus definition files automatically

2004-08-25 Thread Andy Fiddaman
On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, Dennis Peterson wrote: ; Fajar A. Nugraha wrote: ; > Dennis Peterson wrote: ; > ; > > The ClamAV ; > > vendor can offer a push of the AV patterns to paying customers with ; > > special needs. That way you will receive the updates as quickly as do the ; > > mirrors and the ven

Re: [Clamav-users] Downloading clam virus definition files automatically

2004-08-24 Thread Dennis Peterson
Fajar A. Nugraha wrote: Dennis Peterson wrote: The ClamAV vendor can offer a push of the AV patterns to paying customers with special needs. That way you will receive the updates as quickly as do the mirrors and the vendor recovers some of the cost of maintaining ClamAV. Eh? Really? This is somethi

Re: [Clamav-users] Downloading clam virus definition files automatically

2004-08-24 Thread Fajar A. Nugraha
Dennis Peterson wrote: The ClamAV vendor can offer a push of the AV patterns to paying customers with special needs. That way you will receive the updates as quickly as do the mirrors and the vendor recovers some of the cost of maintaining ClamAV. Eh? Really? This is something new :)

Re: [Clamav-users] Downloading clam virus definition files automatically

2004-08-24 Thread Dennis Peterson
Julio Canto said: > > Well, the reason why I have that cheking rate is because I've ClamAV > integrated in a multi-engine antivirus service called VirusTotal > (www.virustotal.com), and to keep av signatures fully updated is one of > the most important things to keep in mind. This is mostly because

Re: [Clamav-users] Downloading clam virus definition files automatically

2004-08-24 Thread Fajar A. Nugraha
Julio Canto wrote: (www.virustotal.com), and to keep av signatures fully updated is one of the most important things to keep in mind. This is mostly because we pretend to offer the 'best' of that engines, and because from time to time we publish information of when was detected new viruses so p

Re: [Clamav-users] Downloading clam virus definition files automatically

2004-08-24 Thread Julio Canto
Thank you for the explanation (looks like sometines it is difficult to find a normal one without being called stupid or something). Don't let this get you down though. Granted, too frequent checks could give mirrors problems. However, technically there is nothing that prevents you from writing

Re: [Clamav-users] Downloading clam virus definition files automatically

2004-08-24 Thread Fajar A. Nugraha
Julio Canto wrote: Dennis Peterson wrote: It would quickly stop being the quickest responding server as you can well imagine, and the owner just may decide to withdraw it as a mirror. Yes, I got it now... I didn't really thought the Clam park of users were so big. Well, yeah :) Thank you for th

Re: [Clamav-users] Downloading clam virus definition files automatically

2004-08-23 Thread Julio Canto
Dennis Peterson wrote: I think if every user were to poll every mirror every 10 minutes as suggested, they would all discover an update at about the same time and all would then begin the download process. Everyone, everywhere, and within minutes of each other. If, in addition, every user were to d

Re: [Clamav-users] Downloading clam virus definition files automatically

2004-08-23 Thread Dennis Peterson
Julio Canto said: > > Imagine how quickly we could destroy this fine free service if we > > all did what you suggest. It sounds to me like you want more than > > you are paying for. > > dp > > Are you still sugesting that one HTTP Get request every 10 minutes would > crash all the signature mir

RE: [Clamav-users] Downloading clam virus definition files automatically

2004-08-23 Thread Mitch \(WebCob\)
> If you really want updates instantly, there *is* a solution. Volunteer > to run a mirror. All mirrors are given updates within 2 minutes. > > Damian Menscher Joining this thread a little late - sorry... Then we get back to the level of committment required to do that... With things as they ar

Re: [Clamav-users] Downloading clam virus definition files automatically

2004-08-23 Thread Damian Menscher
On Mon, 23 Aug 2004, Julio Canto wrote: > > Imagine how quickly we could destroy this fine free service if we > > all did what you suggest. It sounds to me like you want more than > > you are paying for. > > dp > > Are you still sugesting that one HTTP Get request every 10 minutes would > cras

Re: [Clamav-users] Downloading clam virus definition files automatically

2004-08-23 Thread Todd Lyons
Julio Canto wanted us to know: >> Imagine how quickly we could destroy this fine free service if we >> all did what you suggest. It sounds to me like you want more than >> you are paying for. >Are you still sugesting that one HTTP Get request every 10 minutes would >crash all the signature mirror

Re: [Clamav-users] Downloading clam virus definition files automatically

2004-08-23 Thread Jeff Smelser
On Monday 23 August 2004 12:21 pm, Julio Canto wrote: > Are you still sugesting that one HTTP Get request every 10 minutes would > crash all the signature mirrors of Clam all over the world? Excuse me if > you don't mean that, English is not my native tongue. Obviously looking at the big picture

Re: [Clamav-users] Downloading clam virus definition files automatically

2004-08-23 Thread Jeff Smelser
On Monday 23 August 2004 11:14 am, ahellary wrote: > seems to work fine for us I really hope the mirrors take note of your ip and just block people like you.. It shows great ignorance when you really think this is how you need to run your servers, or home computer.. Jeff -- =

Re: [Clamav-users] Downloading clam virus definition files automatically

2004-08-23 Thread Julio Canto
> Imagine how quickly we could destroy this fine free service if we > all did what you suggest. It sounds to me like you want more than > you are paying for. > dp Are you still sugesting that one HTTP Get request every 10 minutes would crash all the signature mirrors of Clam all over the world? Ex

Re: [Clamav-users] Downloading clam virus definition files automatically

2004-08-23 Thread Jim Maul
Quoting Dennis Peterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Rajanikanth P said: Thanks Julio Canto. Thats what i have to do. Hello D J Fan I know that it takes 4 - 5 hrs for an AV company to get the sample analyse it and create a signature for it then alert all its subscribers...and then publish the updates..I kn

Re: [Clamav-users] Downloading clam virus definition files automatically

2004-08-23 Thread ahellary
seems to work fine for us tony - Original Message - From: "Dennis Peterson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, August 23, 2004 4:35 PM Subject: Re: [Clamav-users] Downloading clam virus definition files automatically > Rajanikanth P sai

Re: [Clamav-users] Downloading clam virus definition files automatically

2004-08-23 Thread Dennis Peterson
Rajanikanth P said: > Thanks Julio Canto. Thats what i have to do. > > Hello D J Fan > > I know that it takes 4 - 5 hrs for an AV company to get the sample > analyse it and create a signature for it then alert all its > subscribers...and then publish the updates..I know this..but what i > was tryin

Re: [Clamav-users] Downloading clam virus definition files automatically

2004-08-23 Thread Tomasz Papszun
On Mon, 23 Aug 2004 at 18:26:47 +0530, Rajanikanth P wrote: > > I know that it takes 4 - 5 hrs for an AV company to get the sample > analyse it and create a signature for it then alert all its > subscribers...and then publish the updates..I know this..but what i > was trying to tell this group was

Re: [Clamav-users] Downloading clam virus definition files automatically

2004-08-23 Thread Matt
Rajanikanth P wrote: > Thanks Julio Canto. Thats what i have to do. > > Hello D J Fan > > I know that it takes 4 - 5 hrs for an AV company to get the sample > analyse it and create a signature for it then alert all its > subscribers...and then publish the updates..I know this..but what i > was

Re: [Clamav-users] Downloading clam virus definition files automatically

2004-08-23 Thread Rajanikanth P
Thanks Julio Canto. Thats what i have to do. Hello D J Fan I know that it takes 4 - 5 hrs for an AV company to get the sample analyse it and create a signature for it then alert all its subscribers...and then publish the updates..I know this..but what i was trying to tell this group was atleast

Re: [Clamav-users] Downloading clam virus definition files automatically

2004-08-21 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Aug 20, 2004, at 7:21 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Rajanikanth P wrote: Hello D.J. Fan, But i have a problem here. Assume that clam updates are published at 6:10 Pm. I check for new updates at 6:05 so the next time i gonna check is at 7:05 it just means that after 55 mins i got the updates. An

Re: [Clamav-users] Downloading clam virus definition files automatically

2004-08-20 Thread D.J. Fan
No matter how often you check for new sigs, you'll always have at least several hours between a new worm hits the Net and a signature comes to your local antivirus installation. IMHO to the question : "What do I do ?" the most logical answer is : "explain to your users what a new virus is and h

Re: [Clamav-users] Downloading clam virus definition files automatically

2004-08-20 Thread Todd Lyons
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wanted us to know: >What about companies that are purporting and actually selling appliances >or applications that claim to stop viruses as they break out based on >heauristics and/or pattern matching? Are they just blowing smoke? No, they're just looking for deltas in establish

Re: [Clamav-users] Downloading clam virus definition files automatically

2004-08-20 Thread Todd Lyons
Rajanikanth P wanted us to know: >Hello D.J. Fan, > >But i have a problem here. Assume that clam updates are published at >6:10 Pm. I check for new updates at 6:05 so the next time i gonna >check is at 7:05 it just means that after 55 mins i got the updates. >And within this 55 minutes thousands a

Re: [Clamav-users] Downloading clam virus definition files automatically

2004-08-20 Thread Kelson Vibber
At 03:31 PM 8/20/2004, Rajanikanth P wrote: But i have a problem here. Assume that clam updates are published at 6:10 Pm. I check for new updates at 6:05 so the next time i gonna check is at 7:05 it just means that after 55 mins i got the updates. And within this 55 minutes thousands and thousands

RE: [Clamav-users] Downloading clam virus definition files automatically

2004-08-20 Thread Matthew.van.Eerde
Matthew van Eerde wrote: > Rajanikanth P wrote: > > Hello D.J. Fan, > > > > But i have a problem here. Assume that clam updates are published at > > 6:10 Pm. I check for new updates at 6:05 so the next time i gonna > > check is at 7:05 it just means that after 55 mins i got the updates. > > And wi

RE: [Clamav-users] Downloading clam virus definition files automatically

2004-08-20 Thread Matthew.van.Eerde
Rajanikanth P wrote: > Hello D.J. Fan, > > But i have a problem here. Assume that clam updates are published at > 6:10 Pm. I check for new updates at 6:05 so the next time i gonna > check is at 7:05 it just means that after 55 mins i got the updates. > And within this 55 minutes thousands and thou

Re: [Clamav-users] Downloading clam virus definition files automatically

2004-08-20 Thread rkudyba
> Do you realize that no antivirus can provide a signature until : > - someone has witnessed an infection (or infection attempt), > - reported it to the virus db maintainers, > - the signature has been engineered > - tested (no obvious false positives), > - then finally publicly released ? > > No m

Re: [Clamav-users] Downloading clam virus definition files automatically

2004-08-20 Thread Lionel Bouton
Rajanikanth P wrote the following on 08/21/2004 12:31 AM : Hello D.J. Fan, But i have a problem here. Assume that clam updates are published at 6:10 Pm. I check for new updates at 6:05 so the next time i gonna check is at 7:05 it just means that after 55 mins i got the updates. And within this 55 m

Re: [Clamav-users] Downloading clam virus definition files automatically

2004-08-20 Thread D.J. Fan
But i have a problem here. Assume that clam updates are published at 6:10 Pm. I check for new updates at 6:05 so the next time i gonna check is at 7:05 it just means that after 55 mins i got the updates. And within this 55 minutes thousands and thousands of say ..a worm which is in wild arrives to

Re: [Clamav-users] Downloading clam virus definition files automatically

2004-08-20 Thread Rajanikanth P
Hello D.J. Fan, But i have a problem here. Assume that clam updates are published at 6:10 Pm. I check for new updates at 6:05 so the next time i gonna check is at 7:05 it just means that after 55 mins i got the updates. And within this 55 minutes thousands and thousands of say ..a worm which is in

Re: [Clamav-users] Downloading clam virus definition files automatically

2004-08-20 Thread D.J. Fan
sudo crontab -e add at the end */10 * * * * /path/to/freshclam --quiet NO! Once an hour is reasonable, but not 6 times an hour! I agree, I think a better way is to add a file to the /etc/cron.d directory with the contents of the file: # m h dom mon dow user command 11 */2 * * * clamav /path/to/fr

Re: [Clamav-users] Downloading clam virus definition files automatically

2004-08-20 Thread Kelson Vibber
At 02:13 AM 8/20/2004, Fajar A. Nugraha wrote: Nigel Horne wrote: Is it possible to use HEAD to reduce load? I believe it already uses RANGE, so traffic wise the load is greatly reduced. Wouldn't it be more efficient to use Etags and/or If-Modified-Since and let the server issue a "304 Not Modifie

Re: [Clamav-users] Downloading clam virus definition files automatically

2004-08-20 Thread Thomas Lamy
Julio Canto wrote: Fajar A. Nugraha wrote: Yes. There's nothing that prevent you running freshclam (or whatever your updater will be) every minute or so. However, with the default check time of one hour (default for RPM packages, that is), mirrors already uses lots of bandwitdh (over 100 GB a mon

Re: [Clamav-users] Downloading clam virus definition files automatically

2004-08-20 Thread Fajar A. Nugraha
Nigel Horne wrote: Is it possible to use HEAD to reduce load? I believe it already uses RANGE, so traffic wise the load is greatly reduced. However, if every user decides to set checks every minutes the bottleneck will be in maximum connection. This will not happen if version checks is done vi

Re: [Clamav-users] Downloading clam virus definition files automatically

2004-08-20 Thread Nigel Horne
Is it possible to use HEAD to reduce load? -Nigel -- Nigel Horne. Arranger, Composer, Typesetter. NJH Music, Barnsley, UK. ICQ#20252325 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bandsman.co.uk --- SF.Net email is sponsored by Shop4tech.com-Lowest price o

Re: [Clamav-users] Downloading clam virus definition files automatically

2004-08-20 Thread Julio Canto
Fajar A. Nugraha wrote: Yes. There's nothing that prevent you running freshclam (or whatever your updater will be) every minute or so. However, with the default check time of one hour (default for RPM packages, that is), mirrors already uses lots of bandwitdh (over 100 GB a month each), so please

Re: [Clamav-users] Downloading clam virus definition files automatically

2004-08-20 Thread Fajar A. Nugraha
Julio Canto wrote: Phil Ershler wrote: Every 10 minutes is much to often. There was a thread about this issue just a while ago. The consensus was 1 to 4 hours and not exactly on the hour. If everybody ran freshclam every 10 minutes, the server would croak. Phil For the shake of reducing the 'u

Re: [Clamav-users] Downloading clam virus definition files automatically

2004-08-19 Thread Julio Canto
Phil Ershler wrote: Every 10 minutes is much to often. There was a thread about this issue just a while ago. The consensus was 1 to 4 hours and not exactly on the hour. If everybody ran freshclam every 10 minutes, the server would croak. Phil For the shake of reducing the 'unprotection window',

Re: [Clamav-users] Downloading clam virus definition files automatically

2004-08-19 Thread Steven Stern
On Thu, 19 Aug 2004 16:41:04 -0700, Todd Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Steven Stern wanted us to know: > >NO! Once an hour is reasonable, but not 6 times an hour! I was showing the OP how, not condoning his schedule. I run freshclam on th 17th minute every 4 hours. -- Steve -

Re: [Clamav-users] Downloading clam virus definition files automatically

2004-08-19 Thread Todd Lyons
Steven Stern wanted us to know: >sudo crontab -e >add at the end >*/10 * * * * /path/to/freshclam --quiet NO! Once an hour is reasonable, but not 6 times an hour! -- Regards... Todd We should not be building surveillance technology into standards. Law enforcement was not suppos

Re: [Clamav-users] Downloading clam virus definition files automatically

2004-08-19 Thread Phil Ershler
Every 10 minutes is much to often. There was a thread about this issue just a while ago. The consensus was 1 to 4 hours and not exactly on the hour. If everybody ran freshclam every 10 minutes, the server would croak. Phil On Aug 19, 2004, at 5:21 PM, Steven Stern wrote: On Fri, 20 Aug 2004 02:

Re: [Clamav-users] Downloading clam virus definition files automatically

2004-08-19 Thread Steven Stern
On Fri, 20 Aug 2004 02:15:51 +0530, Rajanikanth P <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hello All, > >I want to write a script/program which checks for clam virus updates >every 10 minutes and updates the respective files. Can anybody provide >me some information on sites that host clam av definitions and a

Re: [Clamav-users] Downloading clam virus definition files automatically

2004-08-19 Thread Todd Lyons
Rajanikanth P wanted us to know: >I want to write a script/program which checks for clam virus updates man freshclam -- Regards... Todd We should not be building surveillance technology into standards. Law enforcement was not supposed to be easy. Where it is easy, it's call