From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 9 14:57:59 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 851E116A4CE for ; Sun, 9 May 2004 14:57:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from carrick.bishnet.net (carrick.bishnet.net [217.204.9.201]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9832943D31 for ; Sun, 9 May 2004 14:57:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tim@bishnet.net) Received: from 82-68-45-195.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk ([82.68.45.195] helo=bishnet.net) by carrick.bishnet.net with asmtp (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.33; FreeBSD) id 1BMwIw-0009zM-OS; Sun, 09 May 2004 22:57:50 +0100 Message-ID: <409EA958.5030402@bishnet.net> Date: Sun, 09 May 2004 22:57:44 +0100 From: Tim Bishop User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040508 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rick Updegrove References: <407C61FA.8070701@updegrove.net> <407C9C7A.9070304@mac.com> <407D4CFE.3060500@updegrove.net> In-Reply-To: <407D4CFE.3060500@updegrove.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.83.6.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig54DEAB069F593AD6244BC76C" X-Bishnet-MailScanner-Information: Contact postmaster@bishnet.net X-Bishnet-MailScanner-VirusCheck: Found to be clean X-Bishnet-MailScanner-From: tim@bishnet.net cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: current qmail-scanner port with clamav and f-prot fails on 4testvirus.org messages X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 09 May 2004 21:57:59 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig54DEAB069F593AD6244BC76C Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Rick Updegrove wrote: > The current qmail-scanner port with clamav and f-prot both scanning for > viruses fails on 4 of the testvirus.org messages. > Lastly, my point is these "ports" are all current according to > "portupgrade -rva" and have current virus definitions yet the > combination allow viruses to get through. This seems somewhat relevant > to FreeBSD ports to me. > > 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? Sorry - a late reply to this thread. I maintain the f-prot port, and the definitions for it. I like to think I keep the f-prot up-to-date as best I can (currently it's one minor revision behind, and there's a PR waiting to sort that out). However, the definitions are a harder thing to solve. The f-prot guys update the definitions on an almost daily basis. Should I be updating the port that often? I suspect not. A better strategy would be for users of the port to keep the definitions up-to-date manually. A good middle ground (which I'm trying to do a better job of) is updating the definitions when a "big" virus goes around. I guess I could also try and update them if they haven't been updated in a "while". Any thoughts? Tim. -- Tim Bishop http://www.bishnet.net/tim PGP Key: 0x5AE7D984 --------------enig54DEAB069F593AD6244BC76C Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFAnqldfc7WWVrn2YQRAimEAKCNURPRowRiZDP5etzAha6F07e0fgCgjPL5 1O688kdBrCLNrgpLqEFLgxI= =YhZN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig54DEAB069F593AD6244BC76C--