On Tuesday 04 May 2004 17:27, Antony Stone wrote:
> Yes. ClamAV is not a commercial product with an associated marketing
> division, and therefore the project does not have the same attitude towards
> "one-upmanship" and "marketing b*llsh*t" which commercial vendors do.
That's what I suspected,
On Tue, 2004-05-04 at 10:46, Russ Phillips wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a query. Most commercial AV software claims to catch something
> like 70,000+ viruses. On the other hand, ClamAV claims to catch 20,000+
> viruses.
>
> Why the difference? Is it because McAfee, Sophos et al consider each and
>
On Tue, 4 May 2004, Russ Phillips wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a query. Most commercial AV software claims to catch something
> like 70,000+ viruses. On the other hand, ClamAV claims to catch 20,000+
> viruses.
>
As a user I an assure you the clamav team is as fast (or faster in the
case of MyDoom) th
On Tuesday 04 May 2004 4:46 pm, Russ Phillips wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a query. Most commercial AV software claims to catch something
> like 70,000+ viruses. On the other hand, ClamAV claims to catch 20,000+
> viruses.
>
> Why the difference? Is it because McAfee, Sophos et al consider each and
> e
Because the other 50,000 are mostly viruses from years ago which are dead
and gone and very unlikeyl to infect anyones machine.
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From: Russ Phillips [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 04 May 2004 05:47 PM
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Subject: [Clamav-users] Numbers of viruses
Hi
