Re: [clamav-users] detection of really old viruses?

2014-12-31 Thread Joel Esler (jesler)
Naresh, Please do not reply to every thread on the ClamAV list asking for help. Have you looked at the documentation page on CLamAV.net http://clamav.net/? -- Joel Esler Open Source Manager Threat Intelligence Team Lead Talos On Dec 31, 2014, at 12:36 AM, naresh hcu nareshhc...@gmail.com

Re: [clamav-users] detection of really old viruses?

2014-12-30 Thread naresh hcu
Respected Sir/Madam, Could you tell me step-wise how to install stable version 0.98.5 from source code in ubuntu??? --- Naresh On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 10:02 AM, Marcel Giannelia i...@skeena.net wrote: On Sat, 22 Nov 2014 18:53:58 -0800 Al Varnell alvarn...@mac.com wrote:

[clamav-users] detection of really old viruses?

2014-11-22 Thread Felix
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

Re: [clamav-users] detection of really old viruses?

2014-11-22 Thread Al Varnell
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

Re: [clamav-users] detection of really old viruses?

2014-11-22 Thread Joel Esler (jesler)
Al is correct here. -- Joel Esler Sent from my iPhone On Nov 22, 2014, at 9:54 PM, Al Varnell alvarn...@mac.commailto: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

Re: [clamav-users] detection of really old viruses?

2014-11-22 Thread Felix
On Sat, 22 Nov 2014 18:53:58 -0800 Al Varnell alvarn...@mac.com wrote: 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: