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DGM


Joined: 26 Dec 2006
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Location: Indianapolis, Indiana
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Can u add clamav safe browsing feature to Clamwin https://github.com/vrtadmin/clamav-faq/blob/master/faq/faq-safebrowsing.md
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GuitarBob


Joined: 09 Jul 2006
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Location: USA
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Yes, it should work. I got it working once, but I also use the Clam Sentinel resident front end to ClamWin, and I kept getting false positives every time the file was checked and Clam Sentinel read the safe browsing database. I decided it was next to useless--even if you use ClamWin alone. Since ClamWin is not a real-time scanner, the safe browsing database will not be of much use to you as you cruise the web. It will only work when you do a manual/scheduled scan with ClamWin and it spots the URL in a saved email or a saved document/file. What we really need is for ClamWin to use a proxy application to check the URLs as you are cruising the web and prevent any activity resulting from a URL that is in the database.

However, if you are an admin checking email/files on a server, it should help. Note the change needed in the ClamWin.conf file found in C:\Users\Bob\AppData\Roaming\.clamwin\ on recent Windows OS computers.

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ROCKNROLLKID


Joined: 23 Sep 2013
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The safe browsing that ClamAV uses is the same one that Firefox and Chrome have built into them. IE/Edge use smart screen filter. Not much point in putting it into ClamWin/ClamAV.
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