On Sun, 11 Jan 2004 at 16:45:30 -0500, jef moskot wrote: > Out of curiosity, what sort of viruses are typically being added to the > database? Are they mostly new viruses?
Added are viruses which users submitted to us :-) . Or found by us. Of course we add new viruses as quickly as possible (they have priority higher than old ones). > Sometimes it's obvious when a user has submitted a large library of old > viruses, but in general it's tough to tell whether the latest crop of > updates have been recently discovered or if the project is just finally I wouldn't use the word "finally" about this :-). This is a process, not a one-time event. > catching up with a bunch of old and relatively rare viruses. > > I'm not making a judgement about what should be done, I'm just curious as > to what is actually happening. The newest, spreading viruses should be (and are) added qucker. -- Tomasz Papszun SysAdm @ TP S.A. Lodz, Poland | And it's only [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.lodz.tpsa.pl/ | ones and zeros. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ClamAV.net/ A GPL virus scanner ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Perforce Software. Perforce is the Fast Software Configuration Management System offering advanced branching capabilities and atomic changes on 50+ platforms. Free Eval! http://www.perforce.com/perforce/loadprog.html _______________________________________________ Clamav-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/clamav-users
