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rfxn.com In Numbers
May 27th
Yup, nothing to see here except numbers…
2,018: Downloads of the newest project, Linux Malware Detect, month to date. 2,294: Signatures for Linux Malware Detect. 6,207: Downloads for all projects for the month to date. 14,176: Google results with link backs to rfxn.com or related domains (i.e: r-fx.org, rfxn.org etc..). 30,061: Active APF installations relative to unique IP’s fetching the reserved.networks file daily. 70,826: Project downloads for the last 12 months, May 2009 – April 2010. 133,931: Total visitor session to rfxn.com, month to date. 258,154: The number of web sites protected by APF (passed unique install IP’s to domainsbyip.com). 1,231,604: Total hits to rfxn.com, month to date.
More >Linux Malware Detect v1.3.6: Loose Ends
May 24th
In LMD 1.3.3 there was allot of changes, 29 to be exact, that made LMD much more robust and especially the monitoring component, much more usable. If that release was about making good things better, then this release is about bringing loose ends together. I spent a couple of days running LMD through its paces along with having many people help me test it and during that process, we brought allot of little things to the surface that needed fixing or revising.
In total, there has been 31 changes, fixes or new additions to LMD since that 1.3.3 release on the More >
Let The Rewrites Begin: New Life For PRM
May 24th
In my last post, I reflected on the last 7-8 years of projects here at rfxn.com, in doing so I also dug up some statistics on project downloads. I not only did this for my own curiosity but to prioritize the mile long to do list I have for the projects, based on downloads. One of the revealing things was just exactly what people are downloading, in particular that projects like LES , PRM & SIM are still very popular download destinations on the site.
Although a new incarnation of APF & BFD are on the agenda, I thought I would More >
Linux Malware Detect v1.3.3: Making good things better
May 15th
This morning I have put out LMD v1.3.3, this is on the back of two other successive releases in recent days that improved LMD in many areas, along with correcting some bugs that were graciously reported by those helping to break-in the project. I have also listened to feedback and revised a number of features along with completely redoing how the inotify monitoring operates, to provide a much more robust model for real-time file monitoring.
I am also happy to say that people are embracing the use of the -c|–checkout option to send me malware that is not currently detected, which More >
LMD Signatures: RSS Feed & XML
May 12th
While I was making some signature updates this afternoon, It occurred to me that it might be useful if the signatures were available through an RSS feed for update tracking or should anyone want to serialize the importing of my signature data into other applications.
The signatures can be access in two data formats, the first is an RSS feed that presents the 50 most recent signatures published. The second is an XML element tree that can be queried by signature ID or for all/recent signatures. There is nothing fancy about either of these data sources, information is presented clean and More >
