[clamav-users] Remove clamav-unofficial-sigs

[Dennis Peterson]

I don't see why this is important. The means of fetching signatures from any 
vendor is automated and requires no thought. There are probably some very good 
reasons why 3rd party authors might wish to own the distribution as an adjunct 
to other professional services, for example. They also work to their own clock, 
quality standards, and customer needs. Somebody help me find a down side. 
Ultimately, the signature transport process changes nothing in terms of blocking 
spam. It is the quality and quantity of signatures that does that, and that is 
independent of how those signatures are distributed.

dp

On 4/9/16 9:09 PM, Paul Wise wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 3:47 PM, Mathieu Parent wrote:
>> 2016-04-06 6:55 GMT+02:00 Paul Wise:
>>> Personally I am still waiting for clamav freshclam to properly support
>>> third-party signatures, so clamav-unofficial-sigs can be a config file.
>> Is there a tracking bug for this? How can we help?
> This was an upstream initiative that now appears to be completely
> removed from their website. Some references still exist on archive.org
> though:
>
> https://wayback.archive.org/web/http://www.clamav.net/lang/en/2011/07/25/clamav-0-97-2-is-now-available/
> https://wayback.archive.org/web/http://www.clamav.net/lang/en/download/cvd/3rdparty/
>
> CCing Luca from the clamav project, perhaps he has some news about this.
>