clamav ports

[Bart Silverstrim]

On Mar 10, 2004, at 9:26 PM, Jonathan T. Sage wrote:

> Bart -
>
> just a thought, but it is possible that the port updated the virus 
> database to the possibly older version in the distfile.  You may want 
> to run freshclam and see if this clears up the issue. Hopefully thats 
> all the problem is.
>
> hope this helps
>

On a lark, I reran the test (situation: I ssh to my home account that 
isn't filtered, and send myself two small viruses that some MS user was 
so kind to have unknowingly sent to me...I'm using Mac to store/send 
them, so I guess it's nice to be immune when I have to test these 
things :-)

Weird.  It caught it this time.  And I did run a freshclam, thinking 
something odd happened to the database.  Perhaps clamd just doesn't see 
the update right away?  (there's also a freshclam run from a cron 
script every four hours or so).  I doublechecked and I wasn't imagining 
things; one virus I sent slipped right through the first time, but this 
time in an identical test almost five hours later the antivirus on the 
FreeBSD filter slapped it right down.

Not gonna question it though, as long as it's working!  Thanks!