Effective virus scanners

[Antony Stone]

On Sunday 24 August 2003 5:06 pm, Miguel Koren wrote:

(talking about ClamAV)

> The virus list,
> though, has about 10 times less definitions than commercial scanners. I
> suppose this is not a big problem because older viruses are not that
> likely but it is a point worth thinking about.

True.   ClamAV, being a relatively recent project, has focused on having
signatures for current viruses in circulation, and is still in the process of
"catching up" with signatures for all the old ones.

That said, it comes with a signature-generating tool which anyone who has a
virus and another anti-virus engine which recognises it can use to create a
new signature for ClamAV.

Antony.

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