Hi,
as the actual FDT2212 once again has the older virus definition database (version 51, latest usable version for FD is version 54 without daily.csv) and only clamscan files on board I wonder if it makes sense to keep this "as is" , to update it or to remove it completely.
I have reported about this theme already two times, but for not reproducable reasons there is no change till now.
At: https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/util/system/clamav/ there are three different files:
a) clamav (command line virus scanner) ca. 3 MB
b) clamdbx (database) ca. 23 MB
c) fdav ca. 700 kB
I created a newer version:
d) clamdbx 54 (database) ca. 30 MB
To make the virus checker work FD needs ca. 128 MB RAM.
As FDT2212 Bonus CD contains a) and b) with a size of 26 MB, it would not use much more space to add fdav 0.2.2 in the same folder, a GUI for virus checking.
This tool was created by Blair Dude, his website is https://sites.google.com/site/blairdude/home, there was no more activity since in about 2010.
I created an update of the ver 54 database for Jerome Shidel / FD. He told me that it has to be discussed by the FD developer group if he can
add it or not. OK. No problem, but as long as clamav with database is on the Bonus CD it makes no sense in my eyes to leave 700 kB GUI away whereas the
older database and the command line file is inside. You can discuss about the question if it makes sense to update the database for "this old OS". No problem too. But could you at least add a copy of v54 database at ibiblio so that users can decide themselve which version they want to use?
Thanks.
Fritz / Willi
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