On Tue, 2006-07-18 at 07:39 -0700, Dennis Peterson wrote:
> Zvi Kave wrote:
> > Why ClamAV has significally small number of known viruses
> > in comparison to other AV software ?
> 
> There's only a small number of viruses in the wild. MS-DOS viruses from 
> 10 years ago are not likely to pose a problem any longer. Having them in 
> your database only allows you to inflate your virus pattern numbers so 
> that people who are impressed by big numbers will be impressed.

For example big memory usage numbers ;)

I like big numbers in IT but I like big numbers on my bank account more

-- 
With kind regards,

Maurice Lucas
TAOS-IT

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