Hi there, On Mon, 7 Oct 2019, Steve Basford wrote:
36,49,543 main.hdb 23,657,708 daily.hdb 248,06,499 main.hsb 905,00,729 daily.hsb 36,49,543 main.hdb 23,657,708 daily.hdb 24,806,499 main.hsb 905,00,729 daily.hsb
Have you finally worn out your keyboard Steve? :O
On 7 October 2019 15:25:41 "J.R. via clamav-users" wrote: I don't know how the viruses are tracked, but maybe to reduce size (if applicable) some of the more ancient viruses that only affect EOL operating systems (or programs that should have long since been patched) could be spun-off into a separate definition file (that could be optionally disabled)? Seems like it would be quite a waste of resources for most if there were like a million definitions that only affected Windows XP or Office 2003 or something like that...
Well I only run Linux systems and I'd _still_ want to scan for Windows and Office 2003 malware. Call it social responsibility. Just because my systems are immune to something malicious doesn't mean I'll want to ignore it when it arrives. If my systems accepted such a thing from a correspondent who has a vulnerable system, and then gave it to another correspondent with yet another vulnerable system then I'd say that I'd been irresponsible if I could have stopped it in its tracks with a bit of effort and very little extra resource usage. There are much more important things to be done with ClamAV, not the least of which is improving the detection rates. -- 73, Ged. _______________________________________________ clamav-users mailing list clamav-users@lists.clamav.net https://lists.clamav.net/mailman/listinfo/clamav-users Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: https://github.com/vrtadmin/clamav-faq http://www.clamav.net/contact.html#ml
