Today is October 19, 2007. There has been no signatures updates from Clam since October 17. Anybody know what is going on?

Regards,

Hello

I hope this is no matter due to their aquisition through sourcefire. It would be a hugh loss as the only one existing open source antivirus project would die. But who knows. Sourcefire wants to earn money and as a consequence clam is no longer free for the public.

Another simple question could be their job. As they are doing it for a company on a regular basis, they won't deliver updates via the weekend as other commercial companies do.

Let's all hope this isn't the end of open source clamav. Money rules the world.

Regards

Tom

It was probably a false alarm--I see 25 signatures were added overnight by Sven. Something happened, however, to make them stop for a couple of days. They have processed about 4500 signatures so far in October, which is more than they used to do in an average month of about 3,000. It appears that there might be only two people doing signatures now--lately you see only Sven and Christoph's names on them. Christoph seems to do the bulk of the work, and Sven will do 25 or so at a time.

It wouldn't make any sense for SourceFire to acquire Clam and not keep it up. They could certainly go entirely private (commercial) with Clam, but they announced their commitment to open source at the acquisition. Of course, you can't trust anything corporations say. So, since ClamWin is entirely dependent upon Clam, we need to keep an eye on this!

Oh for a ClamWin version 1.0 that has a "plugable" engine and database!

Regards,

False alarm. There were 225 signatures added Sunday, and Christoph was back. Perhaps he took a couple of days off. They were ahead of a normal month in signature production anyway, and besides, the PUA (potentially unwanted applications) signatures are catching some of the malware now.

Regards,