Updates Script to fetch Steve Basford's Phihing Sigs for Clam AV

Randal, Phil prandal at herefordshire.gov.uk
Mon May 8 20:56:48 IST 2006


>Randal, Phil a écrit :
>> Folks,
>>
>> Steve Basford has a ClamAV phishing database over at
>>  
>>    http://www.sanesecurity.com/clamav/
>>
>> and has recently updated his site to provide a gzipped version of the
>> file.
>>
>> The attached script is a modified version of the one I posted to this
>> list back in March.  This version uses curl to fetch newer versions
of
>> the gzipped database.
>>
>> It should be run no more than once hourly, and Steve says that 4
times a
>> day is sufficient.
>>
>> Can people using the old script please update to this one to save the
>> load on Steve's server.
>>   
>Phil,

>I had to specify /sbin/service in the script because /sbin was not in 
>root's path under cron.

>BTW: is it necessary to reload MS?

>Denis

Good catch!  I use clamavmodule here and am never sure whether a reload
is necessary after a virus pattern update, so erred on the side of
caution.

Cheers,


Phil


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