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Re: Antivirus/Antispyware/Antiadware for linux?



On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 12:14:03AM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote:
> Ron Johnson wrote:
> >But it sure is useful to be able to have people on duty 24x365, 
> >to update virus-signature files in hours, rather than days.
> 
>     When would it be days?  I've seen the clamav db update in hours.  In 
>     fact in the past 2 months (and change) it has been updated 117 times.  
> That's more than once a day.

Yes. The default config file for freshclam has it checking for updates
every 12 hours. It strikes me that there must be a good reason for
such a frequent update interval.

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