>> Sounds reasonable, especially since data files would have to >> be updated in a timely manner anyways. > This could be done in two different ways: > - The maintainer has to care about updates of the installer package. > This would be quite hard, because users will normally run the > stable distribution and stable allows only security fixes which > would not really fit our target. Updating virus definitions clearly _is_ a security fix as it decreases vulnerability of a system. > The alternative would be a > separate apt-get - able archive. This is to be desired. However, I wonder if they had any objections. (I know, I need not wonder. I merely need to ask them.) > - Install a cron job which regularly checks f-prot homepage. > There is a utility named "uscan" which is able to scan > upstream hosts for new versions according to a regular expression. > I recently heard that it works perfectly but did not try myself. Any URLs ? >> Another main reason for mentioning f-prot was that a) their >> engine is very good as far as I can tell (it used to be good >> many years ago already) and ) it natively runs on Linux. > Well, so anybody want's to do the job? > It's not the kind of job for people like me who do not have any > used DOS/Win partitions which are target for those stupid viruses ;-)). Also very useful for shared data space such as via Samba. Do you think we might run into problems because f-prot isn't free (as in beer) for commercial use ? Karsten -- GPG key ID E4071346 @ wwwkeys.pgp.net E167 67FD A291 2BEA 73BD 4537 78B9 A9F9 E407 1346
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