> On Jun 25, 2014, at 0:17, "Al Varnell" <alvarn...@mac.com> wrote: > > The signature team has always been overwhelmed by the number of new samples > it receives every day and even though the team is bigger today, so is the > input.
Right. We have several people working on malware full time. But we receive well over 650,000 samples a day. We build and ship all this stuff for free. We love it when the community contributes. It's for the benefit of all. > They established a third party signature contribution system a few months ago > and I’m sure part of the reason is to try to reduce what is apparently a > growing backlog of samples which require manual signature writing. If those > with the ability to write quality signatures and contribute them to this > project can do so, we will all benefit from this. I don’t blame the team for > trying to promote this new means of community contributions. Thank you Al. Building a community to solve a problem is important. That's what this whole "open source" thing is supposed to be about. It's not just that the software is free, it's so that everyone can participate. > It would appear that Steve is in a unique position here, in that he has his > own UNOFFICIAL signature databases to contribute as well as the apparent > skills to write them on his own. Obviously there is a much larger user base > for official set so contributions there would be of broader benefit, yet he > runs his own services to the community. Something he’ll need to consider and > decide on his own. We'd love it if Steve wanted to do it. I've never reached out to him individually, but is be glad to have the conversation! Joel _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: https://github.com/vrtadmin/clamav-faq http://www.clamav.net/support/ml
