On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 14:00, Joshua French wrote: > Hello, > > I am trying to find out the difference(s) between ClamAV's virus db and > any given commercial product. In the latter, I've noted that they have > covered 70-80k viruses, whereas ClamAV has somewhere around 10k in its > definitions. > > Is this an apples and oranges comparison? Not really. Maybe Granny-Smiths and Romes, but certainly it is the correct order of magnitude.
The difference is in the aim of the product. ClamAV is focused primarily on e-mail-bourne viruses. It specializes in providing signatures for fast-breaking-havoc-producing viruses, and doesn't have a lot of the historical DOS boot sector type viri. For completeness sake, they will eventually be added. As a priority, I hope the viri database administrators will concentrate on late-breaking viri and leave the historical oddities for when they are bored. > Does ClamAV's 10k not include > variants in it's numbers, but does in fact cover them? > > If anyone can provide some info regarding this, that would be most > appreciated. -- Daniel J McDonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Austin Energy ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and help us help YOU! Click Here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/ _______________________________________________ Clamav-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/clamav-users
