Question for Clam users

[Gerry Doris]

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> From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK]On
> Behalf Of Alan Fiebig
> Sent: Monday, August 11, 2003 12:12 PM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Question for Clam users
>
>
> I've been running ClamAV now for a couple of weeks. The autoupdate of new
> signatures runs just fine. However, I'm seeing a pattern in Clam that I'm
> not used to in my experiance with F-Prot, McAfee etc.
>
> MS has an excellent auto-update routine to grab and install new signatures
> for Clam as they become available. However, I'm seeing almost as many
> updates to the actual Clam program as I'm seeing updates to the signature
> files. With other anti-virus programs I use, I typically only see one or
> two
> new releases for the engine a year, everything else is updated via the
> periodic signature files.
>
> With Clam, it seems the engine is updated almost as often as the
> signatures.
> Obviously the auto-update routine in MS can't handle an update to the
> actual
> program. How are the rest of you dealing with all these engine updates?
> Right now I find myself either paying close attention to my email and/or
> the
> Clam website, and manually installing the new software when I see it; this
> all sort of defeats the purpose of the auto-update procedure.
>
> I wouldn't mind doing this a few times a year, but just in the last month
> there have been four updates (ignoring the development updates).
>
> Thanks for any ideas,
> -Alan

I just checked and the most recent stable version is 0.60 dated June 20.
However, there are a series of snapshot releases.  Depending on your use
of the product you may not even want to consider using these?  Checking
the changelog shows that they're the result of active development
particularly in the mbox area.

The commercial scanners are likely going through the same process but you
don't have the opportunity to see the snapshots!

Gerry