[csw-maintainers] ClamAV - to include the (obsolete) signatures or not?

[Peter Bonivart]

On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 10:49 PM, Philip Brown <phil at bolthole.com> wrote:
> how about you mention some of the problems hindering an automated run, and
> see if people here have ideas on how to overcome them?

It's the usual stuff with mirror, proxy and so on. In most corporate
environments a run of an unconfigured freshclam would just hang.

> As a first shot:
>
> if the package is virtually useless without regular updates, then seems
> like you would want to have some kind of "out of date" check automatically
> built in, to be of maximum use to our users.

The software already features this, warning about obsolete signatures
at every scan for example.

> If you have such a thing, then perhaps you might trigger that to always get
> called at "first run", and then also prompt for any missing information at
> that time?

See above, ClamAV will surely let you know that you're lacking signatures.

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/peter