On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 01:51:37PM +0100, G.W. Haywood wrote:
> > > I started to download it, but when I saw that it was going to be just
> > > under 20 megabytes I cancelled it.
> >
> > Well it's not *that* big!
> 
> My point was that it's ten times as big as it should be and apparently
> it's growing without bound.  This is because it contains a database,

It's probably this big because it now includes support for Premier
Election Solutions' (formerly Diebold) machines.

See also http://www.xkcd.org/463/ :)

(is the bandwidth really such a big deal now that people usually toss
DVD images around?)

Also note - every other virus scanner I'm aware of also comes with a
database "out of the box" (that sophos update I just downloaded
was also 24Meg). Of course, outdated as soon as you hit "Download", but
with the incremental updates of clam, not quite worthless.

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