On 2009-03-19 22:46, Bill Landry wrote:
> Just a curiosity question.  The last database reload in my clamd.log
> file shows:
>
>    Database correctly reloaded (1159852 signatures)
>
> But when I use clamscan to scam a file, it reports:
>
>    ----------- SCAN SUMMARY -----------
>    Known viruses: 1159340
>    Engine version: 0.95rc2
>
> Why the difference in the number of "signatures" versus "Known viruses"
> reported?  What makes up the 512 difference between the two reports?
>   

They are the PUA signatures that are not loaded by default (you need
DetectPUA yes in clamd.conf to load them):
$ sigtool -l|grep PUA|wc -l
512

Best regards,
--Edwin
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