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Wednesday 15 March 2006
 Number  1274
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Subjects for today
 
1   AV programs : Alan Duval <amoht at tpg dot com dot au>
2  Re:  AV programs : Ed Durrant <edurrant at bigpond dot net dot au>

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Date:  Wed, 15 Mar 2006 20:05:41 +1100
From:  Alan Duval <amoht at tpg dot com dot au>
Subject:   AV programs

Hi,

Do any eCS users use an antivirus program?
Can't say i've had any problems without one.
However on noting that ClamAV was available, I tried installing it and 
frankly can't understand how it is used or whether i've installed it 
properly. There seem to be so many options that it's ridiculous.

Regards,

Alan Duval
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Date:  Wed, 15 Mar 2006 20:18:46 +1100
From:  Ed Durrant <edurrant at bigpond dot net dot au>
Subject:  Re:  AV programs

Alan Duval wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Do any eCS users use an antivirus program?
> Can't say i've had any problems without one.
> However on noting that ClamAV was available, I tried installing it and 
> frankly can't understand how it is used or whether i've installed it 
> properly. There seem to be so many options that it's ridiculous.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Alan Duval
 
> 
> 

> 
Norton Antivirus still works on OS/2 - the latest signature files can be 
obtained by going to the download area for Linux - the file format is 
identical.

And if you want auto-update: ....

although Symantec state they have stopped support for the OS/2 	 
product, along with the windows Norton CE editions, the following 
work 		around to use the Linux versions live update files has been posted:
You can workaround that problem by doing the following:
	
Edit NAVLUOS2.INI to the following:
-----
[NAVLUOS2]
									 
PacketName=ftp://update.symantec dot com/public/deutsch/virus_signaturen/
norton_antivirus_corp/rapidrelease/ennlu.lin
UserName=anonymous
Password=notmyemail at nowhere dot net
----
Save the file and you are done. NAV will work as before.
    Explanation: These are signatures for a Linux product, the structure 
of the package is the same as it was for OS/2, the only difference are 
two .DLLs for OS/2 (which haven't been changed for ages), instead of 
these two come two binaries for Linux which are completely ignored by 
the installer. The signatures however are updated successfully.


Cheers/2

Ed.
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