Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 13:54:53 -0400 From: Charles Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: Rick Updegrove <dislists@updegrove.net> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: current qmail-scanner port with clamav and f-prot fails on 4testvirus.org messages Message-ID: <D5295520-8E3C-11D8-8025-003065ABFD92@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <407D4CFE.3060500@updegrove.net> References: <407C61FA.8070701@updegrove.net> <407C9C7A.9070304@mac.com> <407D4CFE.3060500@updegrove.net>
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On Apr 14, 2004, at 10:38 AM, Rick Updegrove wrote: [ ... ] >> If your complaint is that neither vendor's most recent definitions >> fail to catch some known viruses, that's a different problem, which >> you >> should discuss with the vendors directly, since that has little to do >> with FreeBSD ports. > > First of all it is the qmail-scanner port itself that is missing > password protected .zip files because it is a version behind still. > Maybe you missed the relevant portions of the original post. Perhaps I did. I use amavisd and block .zip's entirely, so the distinction between blocking password-protected viral .zip's and non-password-protected viral .zip's is not relevant to me. > Secondly, the most recent vendor's most recent definitions don't > always work when you are a version or two behind on the scan engine > itself. I've seen that with vendors who charge for upgrades, sometimes. I haven't seen that happen to ClamAV, yet. > Thirdly, I am not complaining. I am trying to help all the users of > these ports by shedding light on the facts. Of course I (we) have the > ability to manually install these packages using the current sources > and if I get many more replies like this I will just do that and > forget about trying to help make these ports work properly. If I (we) > have to do that then why even bother to maintain a FreeBSD port for > these packages at all if they don't work effectively? "I'm not complaining. Whine!" :-) It is unlikely that anyone here will attempt to convince you to do anything at all. Feel free to compile software yourself if you think you can do so better. > So now that we have cleared up a few things, who wants to discuss a > strategy to maintain an effective FreeBSD virus-scanner port for > qmail? If you'd like to help other people, submitting an update for the qmail-scanner port via a PR might be useful. Whining about qmail-scanner leaking viral mail isn't very useful, but I guess you can keep doing that instead, if you want. -- -Chuck
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