Twenty years on, command-line virus scanner ClamAV puts out version 1 The ClamAV command-line virus scanner used on many Linux boxes has attained an important-looking milestone release: version 1.0.0. It's not really the first finished version, of course. Open source version numbering is something of a work of fiction, up there with "Of course I love you" and "The check's in the post," but even …
An article about a complete non-event, and a practically unrecognizable description of the ClamAV product is given in the article, which seems to have been written by someone who has no clue what ClamAV is about.
"ClamAV is a command-line virus scanner ..."
No, ClamAV is a toolkit. It happens to include a command-line virus scanner (which as it happens we only ever use here in development and testing).
"ClamAV itself only runs when invoked ..."
Like any other software in existence, you might say. The ClamAV package includes a daemon which can run 24/7 (and does, here, on its own separate server).
"...can hook into kernel notification APIs enabling it to monitor specific folders for any changes in their contents."
No, it does not look for changes in content. It can scan files on access which is why it uses the kernel notification facilities.
This is one of the most misleading articles I've ever read on TheRegister.
> Translated for you intentionally, willfully and stubbornly pseudo-ignorant Brits
Yeah, I too thought this violated the new US-centric House style.
But on that subject:
Next to a headline, the Front Page says fer example (for me) "10 hrs". But on top the actual article it says "10:51 UTC". For those who live within the sound of Greenwich's bells, this is obvious. For we who live a few zones away, we have to pull a hand out of pants and do math (we don't do maths; one is enough). Why different format on front page and on inside page? Which do we really prefer? Does it matter now that we go from weekly to daily to hourly news-cycle?
