Davide Libenzi wrote: > On Sat, 20 Jan 2007, Tracy wrote: > >> Davide Libenzi wrote: >>> On Sat, 20 Jan 2007, Brian Z wrote: >>> >>> If you want free one, look at clam-av. Note that the value of an AV >>> solution is not on the engine/libraries, but on the AV signatures it >>> supports and on the timeframe the DB gets updated. For example, the latest >>> McAfee DAT files supports more than 200K virus/trojan/crapware at the >>> moment. Dunno how many clam-av supports. >>> >> I'm running on Windows, but I built a filter app around the command line >> version of f-prot, along with an auto-updater app that checks for and >> pulls new signatures every 6 hours (the updater runs from Windows >> Scheduler). It's not hard to do - and I think f-prot has a *nix version >> as well. > > For timeframe I meant the time it takes for clam-av people to add > signatures to the AV DB ;) > This requires a somehow tedious operation that involves acquiring samples, > doing the analysis, writing signatures, etc... Inside commercial AV > companies there's people ready 24 hours/day to do that, and those people > usually want to get paid (just because it is a tedious operation) :)
No, I understood that...:) But f-prot has been fairly good about keeping things up to date, at least that I've seen. Plus, since there is a command line version of the app, it's easier to script (without having to pay several hundred dollars for a "mail server edition" that would run as a proxy rather than interfacing as a filter)... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
