Sanesecurity signatures are no longer being updated or distributed

[Greg Matthews]

Anyone know if Sane Security are submitting signatures direct to ClamAV? 
I understand that many of their signatures would make their way into the 
official Clam updates.

Sounds like a P2P distribution mech may have helped here.

GREG

Achim J. Latz wrote:
> In case others are receiving errors from their update scripts [1]:
> 
> "Sanesecurity signatures are no longer being updated or distributed due 
> to extremely high server resource usage, which appears to be from a 
> distributed denial of service attack (DDoS). I've moved server hosts 
> twice (which takes time) and both times have resulted in the site being 
> suspened.
> 
> As many of you know, I produce the signatures and run the site, in my 
> spare time and with Christmas approaching I’m finding my spare time is 
> currently limited.
> 
> Hopefully this won’t be the end of the signatures and I’m hoping that 
> they may return in the New Year.
> 
> May I take this opportunity to thank everyone who has helped this 
> project, either by providing samples, bandwidth, download scripts or 
> donating.
> 
> Thanks and sorry to let you all down.
> 
> Steve
> Sanesecurity"
> 
> [1] http://www.sanesecurity.com/clamav/


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