[Mimedefang] Anti-virus software

[Kenneth Irving]

On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, Mark wrote:

>
> I understand that, of course. My only concern is that, if I am away for a
> few weeks, my old AVP kept running, and that the ClamAV updater will
> refuse to update files for those weeks, just because I was not near the
> console to upgrade. I'd rather it just updated the database anyway, with a
> warning if need be, but not refuse service, and then wait for me to come
> home. But maybe it already does that, and I misunderstood the process. :)
>
It updates the database!
The message is only a warning that yor Clam installation is not 100%
functional, thats all! Of course, if you receive a virus that the most
recent version is able to detect and the previous version wasn't... that's
not ClamAV fault!
I find the warning message pretty useful! And to update Clam is no big
deal. If you keep in a text file the parameters used for compilation, or
better still, write a simple script to do all the dirty work, the upgrade
process takes just a few seconds.

best regards
			Kenneth