[clamav-users] Code emulation

2011-12-04 Thread pritha srivastava
We have learnt that code emulation will be added in Clamav 0.98. We know that code emulation when used in conjunction with scanning is good at detecting viruses. At the same time it is very resource intensive also and results in the slowdown of computers. How is ClamAV planning to take care of t

[clamav-users] Virus Signature queries

2011-12-04 Thread pritha srivastava
1. What do you mean by static malware. Why is MD5 based signature matching suitable for static malware? 2. What do you mean by a pre processed file? Why cant we use hash based signature matching that undergoes pre-processing? 3. In the scan summary, the data scanned is lesser than the data read.