On Sat, Nov 22, 2014 at 06:42PM, Marcel Giannelia wrote: > > Most of the virus definitions in the cvd files don't seem to have dates > associated with them (at least that I could see with sigtool), so I > can't tell -- are older definitions ever dropped? > > That is, will clamav always be able to detect viruses from, e.g., the > 1990s, or are definitions for viruses that old eventually removed from > the database?
AFAIK, definitions exist forever unless they have been found to cause False Positives. You can normally find the date a definition was added by searching the clamav-virusdb archive: <http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-virusdb.en.html> -Al- -- Al Varnell Mountain View, CA _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: https://github.com/vrtadmin/clamav-faq http://www.clamav.net/contact.html#ml
