On Thu, Dec 04, 2003, Thomas Lamy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Johannes Erdfelt wrote: > > I'd argue that many of those viruses are insignificant. There are very > > clear parallels between these viruses and say smallpox. No one cares > > about it anymore because it's all but extinct. > > > > Who cares if ClamAV can't detect viruses that haven't been seen in more > > than decade? > Well, they (heise/Mr. Marx) did _not_ blame clamav for it's small > database. They blamed it for not finding in-the-wild viri, and this is > not something to treat lightly.
I misread the original translation. Yes, this definately shouldn't be taken lightly. > I haven't had any incident of clamav letting a _real_ virus through > (only some _damaged_ SOBIGs), though. Same here. > I just mailed Mr. Marx directly (and in German), trying to get the list > of those uncatched in-the-wild viri, and trying to convince him to > submit them to the maintainer team. Besides having a better signature DB > then, perhaps we could get heise to publish a "good" (read: better) > article about clamav. Excellent. I, for one, thank you. JE ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials. Become an expert in LINUX or just sharpen your skills. Sign up for IBM's Free Linux Tutorials. Learn everything from the bash shell to sys admin. Click now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1278&alloc_id=3371&op=click _______________________________________________ Clamav-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/clamav-users
