support for new antivirus - mks_vir?

[Rick Cooper]

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> Behalf Of Marcin Rozek
> Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2004 6:09 AM
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> Subject: Re: support for new antivirus - mks_vir?
>
>
> Jan-Peter Koopmann wrote:
> >>My question is: is it possible to add a support for mks_vir
> >>(http://linux.mks.com.pl/index_en.html). As authors writes on their
> > The usual answer would be: Yes. If they have a command-line scanner:
> > Sure.
> Yes - dynamically and statically linked versions
>
> > If you want support you could either
> > - write it yourself and send the patches to Julian  or
> I'll better try second option ;)
>
> > - send a copy of the program with all required license keys to Julian
> > and hope he has time to implement it soon (which usually is the case).
> All links and infos are on this page:
> http://linux.mks.com.pl/index_en.html -
> program is free for *nix users.
>
> Can't wait to see it running.
>

I downloaded this yesterday thinking of adding it to MS this weekend. I find
it to be terribly slow, very noisy output which adds to the parsing and it
only has something like 75% detection rate of in the wild viruses. It
doesn't even support recursive scans, you have to pre-scan the directory
with a find command piped into a file list and pass the file list to mks32.
And the unix version is purely beta. Are you sure you want this over clamav
or bit-defender?

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