On Friday 21 March 2008, Dennis Peterson wrote:
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> > gives a summary with "Known viruses: 232534". Why does known viruses
> > not equal
> > 233,146? There are error messages running either command.
>
> That was answered recently:
> >> I am finding a difference in the number of virus signatures.  When
> >> downloaded it says,
> > [...]
> >> There is a difference about 558 signatures.
> >
> > That's correct. Those 558 signatures are PUA sigs and they're not
> > loaded
> > by default. You can enable them by passing --detect-pua to clamscan
> > or activating DetectPUA in clamd.conf.
Thanks. That's the answer. I must have missed that post. 

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