ClamAV and ClamWin

[The_Unbeliever]

Hi there

Is it possible to install ClamWin on windows computers, and have them update from a ClamAV box?

Or is it possible to setup a ClamAV box (Ubuntu, openSuSE etc) to pull the downloads from the clamwin site and hand the updates out when the clamwin PC's asks for updates?

Basically I want to setup a linux repository where clamwin can pull their updates from without having to connect to the internet.

Regards

Libs

 

[thisgeek]

I’m running ClamAV on a lot of clients on my local network. Can I serve the cvd files from a local server so that each client doesn’t have to download them from your servers?

* Sure, there are two possible solutions.
* If you want to take advantage of incremental updates, install a proxy server and then configure your freshclam clients to use it (watch for the HTTPProxyServer parameter in man freshclam.conf).
* The second possible solution is to configure a local webserver on one of your machines (say machine1.mylan) and let freshclam download the *.cvd files from http://database.clamav.net to the webserver’s DocumentRoot. Finally, change freshclam.conf on your clients so that it reads:
* DatabaseMirror machine1.mylan
* First the database will be downloaded to the local webserver and then the other clients on the network will update their copy of the database from it. For this to work, you have to add ScriptedUpdates off on all of your machines!

Hope that helps.

 

[The_Unbeliever]

Thanks, will try it

Will also post back here once all is working fine and dandy

 

[gregmcc]

Depends on how many machines you have running - but there updates are so small its hardly worth the effort.

 

[HavocXphere]

afaik ClamWin's detection rate is not exactly hot. Might be mistaken though.

 

[gregmcc]

I think clamwin uses the same engine as clamav - which is among the best in the business.

We run mail through 4 scanners - sometimes things get past the big 3 but clamav picks up something.