--- Thomas Lamy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Guillaume Arcas wrote:
> > Damian Menscher a écrit :
> >
> >
> >>http://www.clamav.net/doc/0.75/signatures.pdf
> >>
> >>They removed the functionality in 0.80 and above,
> but that's because
> >>it's simplest for users to create md5 signatures
> of unknown binaries
> >>(and the automatic signature generation depended
> on having another virus
> >>scanner detect it already anyway). Of course, you
> can also create
> >>signatures by hand, which isn't that difficult
> once you've read the .pdf
> >>file for the format.
> >>
> >>About the only thing we *can't* do is create a
> .cvd file that is signed
> >>by the original authors. But if the project were
> forked, that would be
> >>trivial to fix also (requires a one-line change to
> the source code).
> >
> >
> > What do you mean by "they removed the
> functionality" ?
> >
> > sigtool - the command line utility used to create
> & manipulate
> > signatures - is still there in 0.83.
> >
> > As already said, you cannot build CVD files by
> yourself but you can
> > create a signature and then create your own
> database with sigtool and
> > use these files.
> >
> They removed the functionality from the tool, not
> the tool itself, for
> two reasons:
> (1) The resulting signatures weren't accurate
> (2) The use violates the license of most (if not
> all) commercial scanners
Why would it violate any license of any commercial
scaners ?
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