Walter,

We received your sample for the first time today and will be analyzing it
for coverage in the ClamAV signature set. Thanks for your submission.

If you are planning to submit a large number of samples on a regular basis,
please contact me off-list.

- Alain


On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 11:47 AM, Walter Bürger <walter.buer...@arscons.de>
wrote:

>
> Hi dear ClamAV team,
>
> ClamAV is a good software and it runs very stable
> on my servers for years!
>
> Many thanks for ClamAV and for your efforts making it
> such a stable software!
>
> Nevertheless, the detection rate of viruses, trojans, etc.
> is not very good.
>
> Almost every time I submit a sample file on virustotal.com
> ClamAV can not detect the virus or malware.
>
> This morning I submitted the file Rechnung_23_14_06_
> 198630274520031_telekom_deutschland_GmbH.exe
> (MD5 ad690be247dda635781e20887fcac0e7)
> on virustotal.com.
>
> 4 out of 54 scanners detected a virus
> (NOD32 named it Win32/Kryptik.CFAE)
> but ClamAV did not detect it.
>
> About 4 hours later I checked again and
> 12 out of 54 scanners detected a virus in this file
> but ClamAV did not detect it.
>
> Of course I submitted this sample file on
> http://www.clamav.net/lang/en/sendvirus/submit-malware/
> too.
>
> Up to now, I never got a notification, although "Notify me" was checked.
>
> A few minutes ago on one of my mailservers:
> clamdscan Rechnung_23_14_06_198630274520031_telekom_deutschland_GmbH.exe
> Rechnung_23_14_06_198630274520031_telekom_deutschland_GmbH.exe: OK
>
> Why shall we not post more than two sample files per day ?
> I think you would get many more sample files and hence a better detection
> rate.
> While submitting my sample file to
> http://www.clamav.net/lang/en/sendvirus/submit-malware/
> "Share this sample with other AV vendors" was checked.
> Do other AV vendors share their samples with ClamAV ?
>
> What can we do to improve the detection rate of ClamAV ?
>
> Best regards,
> Walter.
>
>
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