[Clamav-users] Scan flow of signature files?

2009-04-30 Thread Matt Forbis
file's Md5 to the an FP file does not prevent the file from being detected. We can of course resolve the issue by removing the offending HDB signatures, but wanted to know the exact flow of a scan and ensure that was the reason FP's did not work versus HDB's. Thank y

[Clamav-users] ClamAV vs. Wildlist

2008-01-14 Thread Matt Forbis
Hello all, I am curious as to whether there has been any recent comparison of ClamAV's virus detection against the wildlist (www.wildlist.org). Granted, the latest wildlist is from October 2007, but it would be interesting to see the results as several vendors use their wildlist detection as

[Clamav-users] Unpacked main.* file description

2007-11-06 Thread Matt Forbis
Greetings, I noticed after unpacking main.cvd, it created several files: main.db main.fp main.hdb main.info main.mdb main.ndb main.zmd COPYING What exactly are the functions of each of these files? Do they each contain different types of signatures (PUA vs. virus vs. phishing)? Specificall