SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards just opened and we hope to receive your help to nominate ClamAV to one or more categories.
Once all final nominees have been decided, everyone will be able to vote for the projects of their choice in each category. We hope to be nominated in the category “Best Tool or Utility for SysAdmins”.

Alain Zidouemba will give a talk at DojoSec on the topic: What to do with the unknown.
Here are the meeting details:
Date: June 4, 2009
Time: 6:00 – 9:30 PM
Entry Fee: $1
Location: Capitol College – Avrum Gudelsky Memorial Auditorium

Register: http://www.dojosec.com/?page_id=37
Directions: http://www.capitol-college.edu/visit-campus/directions-campus

Abstract

Clam AntiVirus is an open source anti-virus toolkit for UNIX systems. The main purpose of this software lies in the integration with mail servers enabling mail attachment scanning before the end user receives a virus. Like other anti-virus software, the engine for ClamAV has pattern matching technology at it’s heart. Updates to the malware signatures are released on a regular basis by ClamAV Researchers. When no signatures are available however, or when updates are not coming fast enough the only option is to create signatures. Fortunately, ClamAV signatures are open and this enables the administrator to fill in the gap for themselves.

About Alain Zidouemba

Alain Zidouemba was born in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. He studied Mathématiques Supérieures and Mathématiques Spéciales at the Lycée Jacques Amyot in France and Electrical and Computer Engineering at Howard University in the US. He worked in the area of network modelling and simulation at OPNET Technologies before taking a position at PestPatrol as a Spyware researcher. He later joined Computer Associates to work on intrusion prevention and behavioral malware analysis. Alain recently became part of the Vulnerability Research Team (VRT) at Sourcefire and performs research in the areas of intrusion prevention and anti-malware.