Al is correct here. -- Joel Esler Sent from my iPhone
On Nov 22, 2014, at 9:54 PM, Al Varnell <alvarn...@mac.com<mailto:alvarn...@mac.com>> wrote: 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 _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: https://github.com/vrtadmin/clamav-faq http://www.clamav.net/contact.html#ml
