--- alvarn...@mac.com wrote:

>From: Al Varnell <alvarn...@mac.com>
>To: ClamAV users ML <clamav-users@lists.clamav.net>
>Subject: Re: [clamav-users] Add virus databases and signatures from 
>third-party vendors
>Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2016 23:58:15 -0800
>
>I can’t imagine why the competition would ever be willing to share their 
>signature databases with >anybody.

It's industry practice that a third-party vendor, e.g. Symantec, discovers a 
new virus, it has to share it with other vendors such as Eset, Kapersky, 
McAfee...

>Why would a user invest in a commercial A-V software package if they could get 
>the same scanning >protection for free?

I disagree. Scan engines differ by vendor. Annually at ZDnet there's a rundown 
of which antivirus and malware software offers the best protection such as the 
ability to detect and clean the most number of viruses, trojans and malware, 
the fastest scan, etc.

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