On Tuesday 30 March 2004 5:27 pm, P.V.Anthony wrote: > Hi, > > I have noticed it on my machine. But I have read somewhere that they clean > the database and remove the duplicates. > Maybe thats why it is smaller now.
Removing duplicates was done some time ago - several weeks IIRC. And, once they've been removed, there shouldn't be a need to do it a second time :) This reduction in database size was due to: - removing signatures for things which weren't viruses (spam) - removing signatures for viruses which will be detected a different way (VBS scripts) Regards, Antony. -- Your work is both good and original. Unfortunately the parts that are good aren't original, and the parts that are original aren't good. - Samuel Johnson Please reply to the list; please don't CC me. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ Clamav-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/clamav-users