RE: [Clamav-users] Virus aliases

2004-03-11 Thread Paul Walsh
No idea how easy this would be to implement but here goes: As well as the virus signature databases, how about having an alias database which would contain a record for each virus, indicating its ClamAV name along with those used by the more mainstream AV software like Sophos, McAfee etc. Then hav

Re: [Clamav-users] Virus aliases

2004-03-11 Thread Tomasz Kojm
On Thu, 11 Mar 2004 10:15:50 + Dave Ewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2. Can the alias details be extracted from the .cvd files? If not > currently, is there any way to add this detail? Virus aliases will be supported in signatures in the near future. -- oo. Tomasz Kojm

Re: [Clamav-users] Virus aliases

2004-03-11 Thread Dave Ewart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday, 11.03.2004 at 13:52 +0100, Tomasz Kojm wrote: > On Thu, 11 Mar 2004 10:15:50 + Dave Ewart > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 2. Can the alias details be extracted from the .cvd files? If not > > currently, is there any way to add th

RE: [Clamav-users] Virus aliases

2004-03-11 Thread Mitch \(WebCob\)
> No idea how easy this would be to implement but here goes: > > As well as the virus signature databases, how about having an alias > database which would contain a record for each virus, indicating its > ClamAV name along with those used by the more mainstream AV software > like Sophos, McAfee et

RE: [Clamav-users] Virus aliases

2004-03-11 Thread Mitch \(WebCob\)
> -Original Message- > From: Tomasz Kojm > > On Thu, 11 Mar 2004 10:15:50 + > Dave Ewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 2. Can the alias details be extracted from the .cvd files? If not > > currently, is there any way to add this detail? > > Virus aliases will be supported in signa

Re: [Clamav-users] Virus aliases

2004-03-11 Thread Tomasz Kojm
On Thu, 11 Mar 2004 07:52:44 -0800 "Mitch (WebCob)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Maybe I spoke to soon... if you guys are already working on this great > - how will aliases be identified and submissions be processed? > > I've heard that the bigger manufacturers often copy the first known > name

Re: [Clamav-users] Virus aliases

2004-03-11 Thread jef moskot
On Thu, 11 Mar 2004, Dave Ewart wrote: > ClamAV is a fabulous project - wish I could find some way to contribute. Well, there's always: http://clamav.net/donate.php#pagestart Jeffrey Moskot System Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This SF.Ne