Re: clam tk

2010-05-02 Thread Joseph Sinclair
I think it's a matter of comfort and best-practices; remember that most users coming from Windows just expect that a virus scanner is required, it's better to let them run one using the easy GUI tools now available than to retrain every common practice up front. Running clamav with the most comm

Re: PLUG planning mtg in an hour

2010-05-02 Thread der.hans
Am 02. Mai, 2010 schwätzte Dazed_75 so: moin moin, Sorry Hans, I keep forgetting these. Sunday is often a big gaming night for me but tonight I was just playing a relatively boring new game so I could have been there. Guess I should at least put these on my calendar. I even gave you credit

Re: PLUG planning mtg in an hour

2010-05-02 Thread Dazed_75
Sorry Hans, I keep forgetting these. Sunday is often a big gaming night for me but tonight I was just playing a relatively boring new game so I could have been there. Guess I should at least put these on my calendar. Larry On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 7:07 PM, der.hans wrote: > moin moin, > > tonig

Re: clam tk

2010-05-02 Thread kitepi...@kitepilot.com
Hm... Betty, what are you trying to accomplish? From http://www.clamav.net : "Clam AntiVirus is an open source (GPL) anti-virus toolkit for UNIX, designed especially for e-mail scanning on mail gateways." Are you running a "mail gateway"? Do you even know what it is? (Now risking to

PLUG planning mtg in an hour

2010-05-02 Thread der.hans
moin moin, tonight (Sunday) is a PLUG planning IRC meeting at 20:00 in the #PLUGaz channel on Freenode. IRC meetings for planning PLUG activities and working on PLUG activities and infrastructure. Be prepared to help out if you show up. Agenda * task updates * web site was down briefl

Re: Need Linux Freelancer

2010-05-02 Thread Joshua Zeidner
Lisa, Im currently looking for work... jmz On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 12:48 PM, Lisa Kachold wrote: > Hi! I need a Linux freelancer for a business associate of mine? > > We want a tough skinned energetic youth who can build configure and > troubleshoot linux white box and corporate systems on ca

Re: clam tk

2010-05-02 Thread betty
ok, that is great. i looked and i did download freshclam and it is set to update every hour ! how cool is that. now i'll figure out how to set it up to scan once a day or something i guess? thank you so much. betty i. Joseph Sinclair wrote: ClamAV is typically updated via a separate package ca

Re: clam tk

2010-05-02 Thread Joseph Sinclair
ClamAV is typically updated via a separate package called FreshClam (in Ubuntu, apt-get install clamav-freshclam). freshclam is a background daemon that updates the AV signatures automatically based on settings in /etc/clamav/freshclam.conf (default us typically to check every hour). You can co

Re: clam tk

2010-05-02 Thread Stephen
I checked http://clamtk.sourceforge.net/faq.html and it seems to be it will tell you about updates needed, which will then let you run your updates for AV signatures. On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 1:13 PM, betty wrote: > stupid question alert; please do not read if you have no patience. > > I am using c

clam tk

2010-05-02 Thread betty
stupid question alert; please do not read if you have no patience. I am using clamAV and clam tk, (3.05) so that i can use the gui. it's supposed to have automatic updates, how will i know if it is updating it's signatures? [using a gui] does it run itself automatically or do i need to do that