Sniffer Folks, - ASchmidt...
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ClamAV's web site states that they won't [ continue to support] and
development has been stopped?
http://w32.clamav.net/
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Oddly, I would have bet hard cash that page didn't say that just a week ago.
I went there just recently in order to affirm I had the same dated MSI as
was on their site prior to release of ClamAID. Plus a live webinar I
attended with ClamAV folks at the end of Dec, personally reassured me that
they intended to move forward on the Win Updates. ( Which is why that page
out-and-out shocked me. ) Nevermind the fact that a lot of the emulation
ports were dieing off because of the 'official' native win32 was easier to
utilize.
However, all is not lost. If you read the ClamAV site... Nigel Horn has
been recently promoted in their organization and it was his efforts that
kept the Windows port alive. I've included a recent letter from him to the
ClamAV win32 list below, ( just posted ) which claims they will resume
support at some (undefined) time in the future. Based on other
expectations, probably not until after their main codebase rewrite releases
in March of 09. Add deadline extentions etc. and you are probably well into
fall. ( Clearly to long to rely on an outdated engine. ) But Nigel seems
inclined to enable interested parties to push the ports independantly.
Since the other two independant win32 ports do not include the clamd.exe
port, Pete and I are in discussion about whether it will be more efficient
to take on an ArmResearch port to win32, and throwing out the ClamAV MSI
altogether. This would solve a lot of the ClamAID's complexity in fixing
the install issues that come with the existing ClamAV MSI and it would get
us an updated engine a lot sooner than is likely with the waiting list of
upgrades from ClamAV.
We'll keep you posted.
Andrew Wallo
Folks,
I'm sorry that I've not been able to put time and effort into continuing
the support of ClamAV on the Windows system.
The ClamAV team intend to restart support for Windows as soon as we can.
In the meantime I am also aware that not much has been happening on the
Powertools front. For those of you that don't know, the Powertools
is a suite of programs that enhance the features of ClamAV under Windows.
* clamdService - a service to start clamd and freshclam
* clamAVShellExt - an extension to Windows Explorer to add the option to
right-click any file/folder and have that file/folder scanned by ClamAV
* clamOffice - an extension to Microsoft Word to use ClamAV to scan for
viruses when a document is opened
* clamAVaddin - an extension to Microsoft Office to use ClamAV to scan
for viruses when an email is received.
Given that I'm aware that people use the above tools, I've uploaded the
code to https://sourceforge.net/projects/clamav-power/. The sources are
available under SVN, at
https://clamav-power.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/clamav-power/.
-Nigel
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