Re: [clamav-users] Add virus databases and signatures from third-party vendors

2016-02-29 Thread Walter H.
On 29.02.2016 10:46, Groach wrote: On 29/02/2016 10:14, Al Varnell wrote: On Sun, Feb 28, 2016 at 05:26 AM, Theodore Alcapotaxis wrote: It's industry practice that a third-party vendor, e.g. Symantec, discovers a new virus, it has to share it with other vendors such as Eset, Kapersky, McAfee

Re: [clamav-users] Add virus databases and signatures from third-party vendors

2016-02-29 Thread Joel Esler (jesler)
s@lists.clamav.net>> Subject: Re: [clamav-users] Add virus databases and signatures from third-party vendors Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2016 23:58:15 -0800 I can’t imagine why the competition would ever be willing to share their signature databases with >anybody. It's industry practice that a t

Re: [clamav-users] Add virus databases and signatures from third-party vendors

2016-02-29 Thread Al Varnell
On Sun, Feb 28, 2016 at 05:26 AM, Theodore Alcapotaxis wrote: > > It's industry practice that a third-party vendor, e.g. Symantec, discovers a > new virus, it has to share it with other vendors such as Eset, Kapersky, > McAfee… Yes, it is Industry practice to share malware samples when doing so

Re: [clamav-users] Add virus databases and signatures from third-party vendors

2016-02-28 Thread Walter H.
On 28.02.2016 14:26, Theodore Alcapotaxis wrote: I can’t imagine why the competition would ever be willing to share their signature databases with>anybody. It's industry practice that a third-party vendor, e.g. Symantec, discovers a new virus, it has to share it with other vendors such as Es

Re: [clamav-users] Add virus databases and signatures from third-party vendors

2016-02-28 Thread Theodore Alcapotaxis
--- alvarn...@mac.com wrote: >From: Al Varnell >To: ClamAV users ML >Subject: Re: [clamav-users] Add virus databases and signatures from >third-party vendors >Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2016 23:58:15 -0800 > >I can’t imagine why the competition would ever be willing to sh

Re: [clamav-users] Add virus databases and signatures from third-party vendors

2016-02-28 Thread Walter H.
On 28.02.2016 08:58, Al Varnell wrote: Why would a user invest in a commercial A-V software package if they could get the same scanning protection for free? Anti-Virus solutions not only differ in signature databases ... In addition, those Companies use proprietary formats for their databases

Re: [clamav-users] Add virus databases and signatures from third-party vendors

2016-02-27 Thread Al Varnell
I can’t imagine why the competition would ever be willing to share their signature databases with anybody. Why would a user invest in a commercial A-V software package if they could get the same scanning protection for free? In addition, those Companies use proprietary formats for their databa

[clamav-users] Add virus databases and signatures from third-party vendors

2016-02-27 Thread Theodore Alcapotaxis
Hi, Is it possible for ClamAV on Debian to include virus databases and signatures from the following third-party antivirus vendors? 1. McAfee 2. Symantec or Norton 3. Kapersky 4. Eset Thanks in advance for your help. _ Washington DC's