Here a quick walk through on how to install and perform a file system scan with ClamAV. I’ll be installing and scanning on a RedHat 7.3 machine.

First download the required files listed below. For other distributions you should refer to the download page to get the suitable packages. I saved the files to /opt/clamav/

1. clamav (Scanning tools)

2. clamav-db (Virus database)

3. main.cvd (Virus database update file)

4. daily.cvd (Virus database update file)

Let’s start installing the packages.

[root@pinky:~]# rpm -ivh clamav-db-0.93.3-1.rh7.rf.i386.rpm

[root@pinky:~]# rpm -ivh clamav-0.93.3-1.rh7.rf.i386.rpm

[root@pinky:~]# cp main.cvd /var/clamav/

[root@pinky:~]# cp daily.cvd /var/clamav/

That concludes the install process. Now lets scan.

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My openSUSE 11 repositories

These are the repositories I typically use with my openSUSE installs. Might come in handy for you

Digg have released their first Firefox 3 extension. The extension comes with a toolbar and a status bar button. The toolbar shows you Digg counts and comments of sites you visit and also includes the ability to digg new sites.

Digg Toolbar

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Microsoft has announced that it will sponsor ASF “Apache Software Foundation”. Yahoo and Google are already on board.

Microsoft was quick to say that they will not ditch IIS as tremendous work is constantly being put into it. IIS 8 is already in development and native support for PHP is on the todo list.

As quated from MS;

Open Specification Promise: Microsoft is putting a wide range
of protocols that were formerly in the Communications Protocol Program
under the Open Specification Promise (OSP). This guarantees their
freedom from any patent claims from Microsoft now or in the future, and
includes both Microsoft-developed and industry-developed protocols.

Source: nixCraft || port25

Raj Kissu Rajendran from APIT, who is also a Google Summer Of Code participant gets featured in the local papers.

Raj is working on the “BLOB Streaming Support for phpMyAdmin” project which enables the management of streaming content (audio, video) in and out of the MySQL database through phpMyAdmin. keep up with his progress

This is what he had to say about the local OSS scene,

I envision a more innovation-centric industry driven by research and collaboration, especially in open source. The nature of open source is in its shared environment where experts help newbies design and implement efficient code. I think the local ICT industry needs to be more adventurous in R&D (research and development).

OSS in Malaysia is still slow due to the lake of exposure but it’s people like this who help spread the word by contributing great work.

Good job dude!!

Source: NST