Adrian von Bidder wrote:
On Monday 25 August 2003 04:02, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote:I can think off-hand of at least one other security related tool that needs frequent updating of a ruleset: nessus. It is an active probingclamav needs to update its virus definitons - it's exactly the same case again.
True, but for clamav its already implemented, although with some bugs left.The default database provider for clamav is the clamav-freshclam package. clamav-freshclam doesn't include a database. It automates downloading of one using the upstream updating program 'freshclam'.
For users without an internet connection Marc Haber maintains the clamav-data package which includes a static database. As well as the clamav-getfiles package to update it from a computer with internet access.
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