February 18th, 2004 Posted by - webmaster
AV-Test.org is now tracking ClamAV’s response time on updating the virus database. See
http://www.pcwelt.de/news/viren_bugs/37827/2.html
We are currently at position 5 out of 24. (0 comments)
February 18th, 2004 Posted by - webmaster
A few days ago ClamAV adopted a new push mirroring system. With the new method, the virusdb team can synchronize all ClamAV database mirrors with our master site within a few seconds (usually The full description is available at http://www.clamav.net/doc/mirrors/ . We took inspiration from the Debian mirroring system.
Till now, 16 mirrors are already using the new method and a dozen are waiting to be converted.
If you have a lot of bandwidth and want to help the ClamAV project, please follow the instruction in the document forementioned and setup a mirror for us! Thanks. (0 comments)
February 18th, 2004 Posted by - webmaster
http://www.canit.ca/2004Feb17_Clam.php
17 February 2004 ? Ottawa, Canada ?Roaring Penguin Software, makers of the leading MIMEDefang e-mail filter and CanIt anti-spam solutions, has chosen to bundle the world’s leading open-source anti-virus software with CanIt solutions, while also supporting more than ten other popular anti-virus packages. Clam AntiVirus, whose signature database update beat all anti-virus solutions by an hour or more during the recent “Mydoom” virus infestation, has provided CanIt customers with effective virus protection for the past two years, in addition to CanIt’s flexible, high-performance server-based anti-spam capabilities. (0 comments)
February 12th, 2004 Posted by - webmaster
Everybody please update to ClamAV 0.66.
A DoS vulnerability was found in ClamAV 0.65.
See http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=62586 for more information. (0 comments)
