Re: [Clamav-users] Small number of ClamAV known viruses ?

2006-07-29 Thread Damian Menscher
On Tue, 18 Jul 2006, Dennis Peterson wrote: Zvi Kave wrote: Why ClamAV has significally small number of known viruses in comparison to other AV software ? There's only a small number of viruses in the wild. MS-DOS viruses from 10 years ago are not likely to pose a problem any longer. Having t

Re: [Clamav-users] Small number of ClamAV known viruses ?

2006-07-18 Thread Maurice Lucas
On Tue, 2006-07-18 at 07:39 -0700, Dennis Peterson wrote: > Zvi Kave wrote: > > Why ClamAV has significally small number of known viruses > > in comparison to other AV software ? > > There's only a small number of viruses in the wild. MS-DOS viruses from > 10 years ago are not likely to pose a pr

Re: [Clamav-users] Small number of ClamAV known viruses ?

2006-07-18 Thread Jan-Pieter Cornet
On Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 07:39:32AM -0700, Dennis Peterson wrote: > Zvi Kave wrote: > >Why ClamAV has significally small number of known viruses > >in comparison to other AV software ? > > There's only a small number of viruses in the wild. MS-DOS viruses from > 10 years ago are not likely to pose

Re: [Clamav-users] Small number of ClamAV known viruses ?

2006-07-18 Thread Nigel Horne
Rob MacGregor wrote: On 7/18/06, Nigel Horne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: TK may disagree with me on this, but I have the feeling that the above statement is not true. I believe (TK may correct me on this) that it would be better to say that it has evolved into the state where is it mostly an ema

Re: [Clamav-users] Small number of ClamAV known viruses ?

2006-07-18 Thread Rob MacGregor
On 7/18/06, Nigel Horne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: TK may disagree with me on this, but I have the feeling that the above statement is not true. I believe (TK may correct me on this) that it would be better to say that it has evolved into the state where is it mostly an email virus scanner. But

Re: [Clamav-users] Small number of ClamAV known viruses ?

2006-07-18 Thread Nigel Horne
Tomasz Kojm wrote: Well, it was initially designed as an addition to mail scanners such as AMaViS and also a supplement to OpenAntiVirus which was lacking a command line scanner. Ah yes, I'd forgotten OpenAntiVirus and the connection there. -- Nigel Horne. Arranger, Adjudicator, Band Trainer

Re: [Clamav-users] Small number of ClamAV known viruses ?

2006-07-18 Thread Tomasz Kojm
On Tue, 18 Jul 2006 16:05:34 +0100 Nigel Horne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jim Maul wrote: > > > Not to mention that clamav was designed to be an email virus scanner. > > TK may disagree with me on this, but I have the feeling that the > above statement is not true. > > I believe (TK may corre

Re: [Clamav-users] Small number of ClamAV known viruses ?

2006-07-18 Thread Nigel Horne
Jim Maul wrote: Not to mention that clamav was designed to be an email virus scanner. TK may disagree with me on this, but I have the feeling that the above statement is not true. I believe (TK may correct me on this) that it would be better to say that it has evolved into the state where is

Re: [Clamav-users] Small number of ClamAV known viruses ?

2006-07-18 Thread Dennis Peterson
Zvi Kave wrote: Why ClamAV has significally small number of known viruses in comparison to other AV software ? There's only a small number of viruses in the wild. MS-DOS viruses from 10 years ago are not likely to pose a problem any longer. Having them in your database only allows you to infl

Re: [Clamav-users] Small number of ClamAV known viruses ?

2006-07-18 Thread Jim Maul
Daniel J McDonald wrote: On Tue, 2006-07-18 at 17:11 +0200, Zvi Kave wrote: Why ClamAV has significally small number of known viruses in comparison to other AV software ? I don't think that's true. 62 thousand signatures is a healthy amount. main.cvd is up to date (version: 39, sigs: 58116, f

Re: [Clamav-users] Small number of ClamAV known viruses ?

2006-07-18 Thread Daniel J McDonald
On Tue, 2006-07-18 at 17:11 +0200, Zvi Kave wrote: > Why ClamAV has significally small number of known viruses > in comparison to other AV software ? I don't think that's true. 62 thousand signatures is a healthy amount. main.cvd is up to date (version: 39, sigs: 58116, f-level: 8, builder: tkojm

[Clamav-users] Small number of ClamAV known viruses ?

2006-07-18 Thread Zvi Kave
Why ClamAV has significally small number of known viruses in comparison to other AV software ? Thanks, Zvi ___ http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html