On Tue, 24 Feb 2004 at 11:05:32 +0100, David Girardey wrote:
> 
> I'm testing signatures extraction with a 'home-made' virus : I extract
> a piece of a binary file (jpeg file), and put it into a test.virus.db

No. First you must do a hex dump of the binary fragment. It's described
in the doc.

> I use the creating signature manual to take a good string (size
> between 40 and 200, etc).
> 
> I put this test.virus.db into my database directory (with daily.cvd
> and main.cvd).
> 
> I test this signature with this command :
> 
> clamscan --mbox /tmp/image.jpg

For testing purposes, quicker is using only that test signature:
clamscan -d test.virus.db /path/fileforscanning

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