Re: SaneSecurity

Bret Miller wrote:
>> Perhaps more a clamav question, but does anyone use the additional
>> definitions for clam from SaneSecurity and are they helpful
>> in the Spam Wars?
>
> You're in luck! I just installed them yesterday. Had been meaning to for
> a while, but things have been too busy to get the script written to
> update them. So, in less than 24 hours, hit over 1800 spam messages
> here-- about 1/3 of our spam volume.
>

I've been told that 3rd party clamav signatures can make clamav
unstable, because they seem to not be as well tested as the clamav
signatures. You end up with more than a few cases of "error in 3rd
party signature file causes clamav to choke and not run".


Which is all to say: watch the results of your updates closely.