Correct.  Now that we are back to pushing updates every 4 hours, whereas most 
AV companies only push once or twice a day.


--
Joel Esler
Manager, Talos Group




On May 17, 2016, at 10:20 AM, C.D. Cochrane 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

My 2 cents would be that rapid traditional signature updates are not a viable 
solution to this long term problem.  I'm pretty sure the current generation of 
Locky, Dridex, Nemucod, etc. ransomware is generated using millions of tiny 
mutations so that almost every email attachment has a unique signature.  There 
is no way to keep up with that.  ClamAV got more than a million virus samples 
per day, last time I inquired.
...Chris


Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2016 at 8:02 AM
From: "Michael D. L." <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
Subject: [clamav-users] Signature update schedule, and requirements for adding 
Signatures
Hi,

Hope it's the right list I'm posting to :)

Why is the Signature Database only updated every 4 hours? Every 15
minutes would make more sense, since Spammers move very fast pushing out
new version of Trojans and alike.

I've reported several Signatures/Files (via. the website), but they
never make it to the database. When reporting, I also included the
result from 
www.virustotal.com<http://www.virustotal.com>[http://www.virustotal.com]

Best Regards
Michael

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